Robert Sweet | The British Warblers..., 1823

Robert Sweet

The British Warblers. An account of the genus sylvia… London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall for the author, 1823

8vo (240 x 149 mm.), 16 hand-coloured engraved plates by E.D. Smith and Weddell after Smith, later half morocco, top edge gilt, light spotting, some browning at extremities, some transfer from plates onto facing leaves, professionally restored marginal closed tear to pp. 24-25 (not affecting text)

LITERATURE:

Fine Bird Books, p. 110; Nissen IVB 919; Zimmer, p. 620