Parrots in Captivity
Parrots in Captivity
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Three volumes complete, 1884-1887 (spines dated 1892) - Volume One - [5], vi-x, [1], 2-144pp; Volume Two - [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-114pp and Volume Three - [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-144pp. Original cloth, title, author, place and date in gilt to spines, central parrot device to upper covers, t.e.g.
Slightly rubbed to extremities, rubbed to spine ends. Gift inscription to coloured endpapers, edges of text block lightly foxed, plates and text generally quite bright and clean. Each volume with twenty-seven coloured plates (a total of eighty-one as called for), after A.F. Lydon
Nissen DIVB:393; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, page 103
Year
1884
Condition
Good+
Edition
First Edition
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 - Volume One - [5], vi-x, [1], 2-144pp; Volume Two - [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-114pp and Volume Three - [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-144pp. Original cloth, title, author, place and date in gilt to spines, central parrot device to upper covers, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, rubbed to spine ends. Gift inscription to coloured endpapers, edges of text block lightly foxed, plates and text generally quite bright and clean. Each volume with twenty-seven coloured plates (a total of eighty-one as called for), after A.F. Lydon Nissen DIVB:393; Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, page 103){kind=link}