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1865 The Food Use and Beauty of British Birds
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding
With an illustrated frontispiece.
Prior owner's note to the title page, citing this work as a first edition. Several more pencil notations to the margins.
Prior owner's inscription to the front endpapers, Willoughby Gardner, N. Wales.
Bookbinder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper, 'Heyes and Jones, Liverpool'.
A scare study of this essay on birds. Accompanied with a catalogue of all the British birds, with descriptions of their food, and many hundred examinations of their stomachs.
A smart work.
Condition
In a half morocco binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to the joints and boards. Evidence of repair to the spine. Small split to the front joint, with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's inscription to the front pastedown, and to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Prior owner's inscriptions to the margins. The odd spot to pages.
Good
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