Millais, John Guille.
Association copy: Abel Chapman. Game Birds and Shooting Sketches illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage and the Hybrids & Varieties which occur amongst them.
Publisher:
Henry Sotheran, London;
Date of Publication:
1894
Stock Code:
8334
Second Edition. Quarto, pp. xii, 185, 16 (advertisements). Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard of "Thomas Bewick" by Sir John E Millais, 18 full page plates plus 38 illustrations within text. Sympathetically re-backed using original pictorial boards with original spine laid-on, original endpapers. Cover cloth partially toned with bumped corners and toned endpapers. From the library of the celebrated author and naturalist Abel Chapman with his armorial bookplate to front paste-down. A Very Good copy.
Study of the Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan, with sections on each. Scarce.
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