The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Fourth edition. Illustrated with Twenty Eight plates containg fifty-two figures of Birds, and seven additional plates of Eggs.
by MUDIE, ROBERT:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Bell, London, 1878. Exquisitely coloured frontispiece & title vignette to each volume and 17 coloured plaes of Birds and Eggs (as called for). Together with illustrations in the text. Two volumes 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), pages: 422 & 440, original red cloth; one gathering loose at end of vol. 1 with a little wear to fore-edge of two leaves of text amd two plates. 1-inch split to headband of vol.1. Binding damp marked, internally very clean.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20934
- Title
- The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Fourth edition. Illustrated with Twenty Eight plates containg fifty-two figures of Birds, and seven additional plates of Eggs.
- Author
- MUDIE, ROBERT:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell, London, 1878.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...