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London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. Very Good+. Clean tan cloth boards with brown illustration, red lettering on the cover, red, gold and brown lettering on spine. 1893 on title page. No fraying or fading; extremely light soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean black endpapers. Beautifully penned previous owner inscription on back of front free endpaper. Wonderful book on the partridge with the following three sections: Natural History of the Partridge, by the Rev. H. A. MacPherson; Shooting, by A. J. Suart-Wortley, and Cookery, by George Saintsbury. With illustrations by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, A. Thorburn, and C. Whymper, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 276 pages + ads for Badminton Library and other sporting books and 32pp undated publisher's catalog at rear. From the "Fur and Feather Series" edited by Alfred E. T. Watson..

Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. 1st. Ed.. pp.vi, 276 with b/w. illus. plus 24-page publisher's catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Bookplate. Contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards in thor. vg. condition. Illustrated by Archibald Stuart-Wortley, Charles Whymper and Archibald Thorburn.

London; Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893., 1893. Hard Cover. Number 14 in a LIMITED EDITION of 150 large paper copies only. Octavo, pp. vi, [2], 276. Vignette to title page and 11 plates including frontispiece with tissue-guard, variously by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, A. Thorburn and C. Whymper; in-text diagrams by A.J. Stuart-Wortley. Publishers' cream quarter vellum-effect paper, with white cloth boards; gilt titles and ruling to spine. Fore-edge and lower edge uncut. Covers lightly surface soiled, with minor creasing at spine tips and bruised corners. From the library of Craignish Castle, on the West coast of Scotland, with pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered light foxing, mainly to endpapers and edges. A Very Good copy. Comprehensive study of the natural history, shooting of and cookery of the partridge. Scarce in this edition.