The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks [Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and the Author]

Autore: MILLAIS, John Guille (1865-1931)

Tipografo: Longmans Green & Co.

Dati tipografici: London, New York & Bombay, 1902


340x310 mm. xiv, 107 pp. with illustrated title page, colored frontispiece (original tissue guard present) 41 colored plates (8 by Thorburn, 33 by Millais; all original tissue guards present), 6 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), and 25 plates in monochrome. Original two-tone green cloth, spined and upper board lettered in gilt (dusty on the borders of the front panel, slightly worn and rubbed). Manuscript dedication by P.W. Cobbold to W.A. Churchman dated March 1904. A very good copy. First edition. Limited edition of 600 copies (the present copy is no. 465). Anker, 340; Mullens & Swann, p. 406; Wood, p.464.


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