LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES FOLIO (14 BY 19.5 INCHES) HALF LEATHER OVER GREEN BOARDS. PRINTED ON ‘GELDERLAND’ WHITE CARTRIDGE AND BOUND BY MANSELLS OF LONDON. 36 FULL PLATES. VERY GOOD. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED.
NEW HARDBACK BOOK IN DUSTWRAP. THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHORS AND TO OTHERS WHO HAD THE STAMINA AND DETERMINATION TO PERSEVERE WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THEIR WORKS. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS.
Author:
DESMOND RAY
Place, Publisher, Date:
2003 THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND OAK KNOLL PRESS, LONDON
LARGE FORMAT. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. A LITTLE FOXING ON F.E.P. THE ROYAL HOUSES OF FOURTEEN COUNTRIES – CASTLES FORTS COUNTRY-HOUSES AND PALACES – ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS SUPERB BOOK. THEY PROVIDE A RICH AND EXOTIC PICTURE OF THE AWESOME SPLENDOUR WHICH ONCE SURROUNDED THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE AND WHICH STILL LINGERS IN THE DESERTED THRONE ROOMS STATE BEDCHAMBERS COURTYARDS AND GARDENS OF VERSAILLES SCHONBRUNN THE ESCORIAL OR THE WINTER PALACE.
FIRST U.S. EDITION CARD COVERS pp x 308. A POOR BINDING WITH LOSS TO THE TOP OF THE SPINE WEAK HINGES LOSS OF FEP. CONTENTS AGE-TONED THROUGHOUT. A WORKING COPY. VERY SCARCE.
THE NEW EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED. QUARTO FINE BROWN FULL MOROCCO BINDING WITH ALL EDGES GILT. MANY ENGRAVED PLATES AFTER FIELDING CRESWICK ET AL. SLIGHT FOXING TO PRELIMS. INSCRIPTION THEN VERY CLEAN. AN ATTRACTIVE AND BRIGHT COPY.
FIRST EDITION. NEAR FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER. THIS BOOK IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO BIRD STUDIES AND TAKES ITS PLACE BESIDE DESMOND NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON`S FOUR EARLIER MONOGRAPHS. THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME BY DONALD WATSON HAVE ALL THE VERACITY AND ATMOSPHERE THAT ONE HAS COME TO EXPECT OF THIS GIFTED ARTIST.
FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 194. FULL BLACK LEATHER ALL EDGES GILT SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON A TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE. A FINE COPY IN A BROWN CLOTH SLIPCASE. NUMBER 107 OF THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AND TABLES.