Beverley R. Morris | British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London, 1855

Beverley R. Morris

British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1855

FIRST EDITION, 4to (352 x 242mm.), 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, contemporary half morocco gilt, raised bands to spine, gilt edges, light browning, tear to top of plate 31 (not in the illustration), extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped

PROVENANCE:

George Baird Stichill, armorial bookplate; Northern Counties Club, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bookplate

LITERATURE:

Anker 345; Nissen IVB 644; Zimmer pp.442-3