Thomas Bewick | History of British Birds, Newcastle, 1797-1804, 2 volumes, green morocco by Rivière and Sons

Thomas Bewick.

History of British Birds. Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick, 1797-1804

FIRST EDITION, one of 850 copies on thick royal paper priced 15s. on title-page, 2 volumes, 8vo (229 x 137 mm), half-title in first volume, numerous engraved in-text illustrations, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt by Rivière and Sons, spine with raised bands in six compartments, covers ruled in gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles