Game Birds and Shooting Sketches: Illustrating the Habits, Modes of capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them
by Millais, John Guille Millais:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Small folio. Pp. xii + 72. Contemporary half red morrocco, gilt titles. T.e.g. A split between the top board and the spine has been repaired and the front hinge is loose. With a frontispiece portrait of Bewick by J.E. Millais., 16 full-page colour plates (chromolithographs), 18 tinted autotypes and 31 woodcuts. Some very faint spotting to the endpapers and a little to the title page, otherwise clean internally.
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- Bookseller
- Isabelline Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2987
- Title
- Game Birds and Shooting Sketches
- Author
- Millais, John Guille Millais:
- Illustrator
- Millais
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sotheran
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Millais Game Birds
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