Meyer, Henry Leonard

FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes, 4to (360 x 260mm.), lithographed throughout, titles, list of plates to each volume, 313 fine hand-coloured plates after Meyer by Meyer and Mary Ann Moor Meyer, contemporary dark green morocco gilt, gilt edges, a few plates with light spotting, mostly marginal

Sir Bryan Godfrey Faussett, presentation inscription from his cousin Frederica F. Perceval dated March 1920 and armorial bookplate; Hugh Fattorini, bookplate

Fine Bird Books, p.93; Mullens and Swann, p.398; Nissen IVB 627

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A FINE COPY of “one of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology” (Mullens and Swann). The work is of notorious bibliographical complexity: see W.G. Hale, The Meyers’ Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs (London, 2007).