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1894-1913 Fur and Feather or Fur, Feather and Fin Series
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Eleven volumes of a twelve volume set. A series written to present monographs, as complete as they can possibly be made, on the various birds, fish and beasts of the British Isles. Each volume contains sections on the natural history of the animal, methods of hunting or fishing, and ideas for cookery where applicable. Edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, a British journalist, editor, and author, who wrote numerous articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. With contributions from Rev. H. A. Macpherson, A. J. Stuart-Wortley, George Saintsbury, Alexander Innes Shand, Hon. Gerald Lascelles, Charles Richardson; J. S. Gibbons, G. H. Longman, Col. Kenney Herbert, James Edmund Harting, Alexander Innes Shand, the Marquess of Granby, Colonel F. H. Custance, Claud Douglas Pennant, Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, William Senior, John Bickerdyke, W. H. Pope, L. H. De Visme Shaw; Richard J. Ussher, Thomas F. Dale, Illustrated by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, A. Thorburn, C. Whymper, G. D. Giles, G. E. Lodge, S. Alken, J. E. Grace, Douglas Adams, George Roller, This set contains: The Partridge, 1894. Second edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, ten plates, and numerous in-text images. The Pheasant, 1895. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, nine plates, and numerous in-text images. The Grouse, 1895. Second edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, eleven plates, and numerous in-text images. The Hare, 1896. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and numerous in-text images. The Rabbit, 1898. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, nine plates, and numerous in-text images. The Trout, 1898. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, ten plates, and numerous in-text images. The Salmon, 1898. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and numerous in-text images. The Pike and Perch, 1900. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, ten plates, and numerous in-text images. The Snipe and Woodcock, 1903. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and numerous in-text images. The Fox, 1906. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and numerous in-text images. The Red Deer, 1912. New impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.
Condition
In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the cloth. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spines of the pheasant, hare, and salmon. Front hinge starting but firm to the grouse, rabbit, trout, and the snipe and woodcock. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Tide marks to the rear few pages of the grouse. Previous owner's bookplate and contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers of the odd volume.
Very Good
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