A History Of British Birds: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 + Supplement by William Yarrell - 1843

A Good half-morocco bound First Edition matching set of William Yarrell's three volume review of Britain's birds (printing for all three volumes stated as 1843 by S & J Bentley, Wilson, and Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane) with the 1845 Supplement bound in at the rear of Volume 3.

Physical Description: Hardback, 8vo (approx 8 inches / 21 cm tall) with a total of five hundred and twenty wood-engravings; xxxii + 528 pages, 672 and 384 pages plus 53 page illustrated Supplement.

External Condition: Moderate to significant general wear to the green morocco and marbled paper boards and spines (five raised bands on spines, Volume 1 front joint split with a couple much shorter splits developing to the other volumes, moderate bumps to Volume 2 bottom edge, significant rubbing / surface loss with portions of underlying boards visible at the edges), gilt spine lettering and decoration still clear and bright.

Internal Condition: All three volumes securely bound with boards attached but hinges narrowly cracked, text blocks sound with no loose pages, no inscriptions, all edges heavily gilt (top edges dulled / dusted but fore and bottom edges very bright), heavy foxing to the plain reverse of the marbled endpapers with moderate foxing to adjoining pages but thereafter only intermittent mostly light internal foxing / soiling (very occasionally moderate to significant), original ribbon markers still present with moderate to significant associated paper marking / browning, a couple very short closed plain edge tears and occasional creasing but overall all three volumes are internally Good to Very Good in a clean and clear condition.

Total weight with packaging 2.7Kg.