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George Bell, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 32 colored plates that are extra colorful decorated boards gold edges around book is very solid and tight

George Bell, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 32 colored plates that are extra colorful decorated boards gold edges around book is very solid and tight

London: Gibbings and Company, 1894. Second edition.. Some edge-wear to cloth, a tight, very good copy.. Pp. iv, 252, 16 fine color plates of birds after A. F. Lydon + 16 color fine plates of bird eggs. Publisher's gilt-decorated and pictorial blue ribbed cloth, top edge gilt, royal 8vo. From the library of Major O.C.C. Nichols with his bookplate. Inscription dated 1895 on the front blank endpaper.

Gibbings , 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. a more delux binding full polished red leather with gold border and raised ribs on spine Marbleized page edges

London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. iv, 252, 32 col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo (250x180mm), cont. full prize calf, decorative gilt tooled border to both boards, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title-piece, marbled edges and endpapers. Some wear to extremities, some rubbing to spine and joints, short splits to head/foot of joints. Gilt crest of Edinburgh Institution to front board and prize bookplate dated 1890.. First edition. Printed by B. Fawcett, Driffield, with attractive colour plates (16 of birds by A.F. Lyden; 16 of eggs). Title page printed in red and black. Nissen IVB 6..

Ornithology Monographs . 2nd. Ed. Pub. Gibbings and Co. 1894. pp.iv, 252 with 16 colour plates of birds by A.F. Lydon and 16 colour plates of eggs. Small 4to. Bookplate to ffep. Some spotting very largely confined to end-papers and fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original, gilt decorated boards in thor. vg. condition. Informed and charmingly written. Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) was a British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer (of Driffield), to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. George Bell. 1874. pp.iv, 252 with 16 colour plates of birds by A.F. Lydon and 16 colour plates of eggs. Small 4to. Occ. light spotting o/w., contents fine. Charming, early, pencilled notes to tissue guard of egg plate 16. Original, gilt decorated boards very bright and in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy. Informed and charmingly written. Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) was a British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer (of Driffield), to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Pages clean and bright, with occasional light spotting, light foxing on endpapers and title pages, cracked gutter at pages 96-97 but no detachment, binding firm, light shelf wear to edges of boards but overall neat.. Hard. Very Good. 4to.