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London: Gibbings & Company 3rd edition, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good-. Tinted plates (24) + 56 wood engravings in the text. . Small quarto green ribbed and blindstamped cloth (tips worn/bit marked to lower fore-edge) xxviii +231pp. Small ownership stamp of E.A. Ellis (Edward Ellis naturalist author) to corner of half title + pencil inscription M.P. Cockle dated Margate 1917. Inner hinge slightly pulled else very crisp and tight.

London, William MacKenzie, 1879. . First edition; 2 vols, folio (37.3 x 28.3 cm); 41 wood-engraved colour printed plates by Benjamin Fawcett after Lydon, with tissue-guards, numerous engravings within text; occasional random spotting, publisher's pictorial brown cloth gilt, decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, a fine set. This work of the natural history of the various species of fishes that were known to occur in the rivers, lakes and ponds of the British Isles, contains a splendid set of colour plates from the drawings of A. F. Lydon. 'Houghton, a Shropshire clergyman, aimed his book at the fisherman rather than the naturalist, and the text (of which there is, unusually, plenty) gives information about recognition, feeding and breeding habits, habitat, bait and so on'. (Buchanan) Freeman, 1782; Nissen, I, p.208; Buchanan, Nature into Art, 168.

London:: William Mackenzie, (1879)., 1879. Large 4to. (374 x 275 mm) xxvi, 204 pp. 41 colored full-page chromolithographs (including frontispiece), 64 engraved vignettes, red and black title-page, top edge gilt. Modern dark brown quarter morocco over original cloth boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title. Bookplate of James Jones. RARE. Fine. MAGNIFICENT CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF BRITISH FISH: FIRST EDITION, with all plates present and in fine condition. Sometimes bound as two volumes, but this copy is bound as one, and it is complete. This Victorian book is a gentleman's encyclopedia of the fresh water fish native to Britain. In addition to 41 stunning color full-page plates of each fish described, the book also has a steelcut vignette at the beginning of each description, as well as numerous diagrams and drawings. Reverend William Houghton, a Shropshire clergyman, produced this work with the angler in mind - opposed to the naturalist. Many of the fish are portrayed as game-landed freshwater fish… Read More