Game Birds and Wild-fowl of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing [15 only of] thirty plates in colour, showing [38 only of] fifty-eight species. by THORBURN, Archibald

London: Longmans Green & Co. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with some fading anf marks. Foxing to page edges and sporadically to content. Browning to page edges. 1923. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 390mm x 290mm (15" x 11"). vii, 79pp + plates. Illustrated with 30 tissue guarded colour plates. Heavy book – extra shipping needed for overseas. .

GAME BIRDS AND WILD-FOWL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Longmans, Green and Co., 1923, first edition, light wear and fraying to the head of the spine, some light fading to the margins of the front cover, small area of upper margin of rear cover lightened from one time moisture stain, some foxing to the end-papers, pre-lims and post-lims but not the paste-downs, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original red cloth binding with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt and with all 30 wonderful full color plates present and in fine condition with tissue guards.

London, Longnan Green and Co, 1915-1923 . Limited editions; 8 vols; large 4to ( 40 x 33 cm) British Birds, (4 vols) numbered 63/105 with 82 plates (including the rare supplement containing 2 extra plates numbered 80a and b, bound in to the rear of volume 4), ; A Naturalists Sketch Book, numbered 66/105 with 24 colour and 36 collotype plates; British Mammals, (2 vols) numbered 146/155 with 50 colour plates, text vignettes; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, numbered 85/155 with 30 colour plates, all the colour plates are mounted on card, all captioned and numbered, tissues, letter from Sangorski and Sutcliffe re binding inserted loose, slight spotting to a couple of title-pages; all vols are uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco gilt with raised bands, gilt lettered and dated on spines, top edge gilt, Game Bird volume slightly faded on upper board; overall an excellent set. A Fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist archibald Thorburn F.Z.S… Read More