Peter Scott | Morning Flight, London: Country Life Limited, 1935

Peter Scott

Morning Flight: a book of wild fowl. London: Country Life Limited, 1935

FIRST EDITION, extra-illustrated with an original watercolour signed 'Peter Scott | August 1965', 4to (306 x 245mm.), 63 plates (16 coloured), contemporary blue morocco by Henry Sotheran Ltd., with embossed pale leather illustration on front board of three swans in flight, spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt, light blue silk-lined endpapers, mid blue slip case, top edge gilt, others uncut, back endpapers soiled, spine bleached, edges of slip case worn with partial tears to cloth on bottom edges

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Nissen IVB 847