1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN BROWN BOARDS – NO DUSTWRAP. FROM WILD MOORLANDS OF ENGLAND TO MOORLANDS AND MARSHES OF SCOTLAND AND SHETLAND OLAND AND LAPLAND. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR. INSCRIPTION AND DATE ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD.
FIRST EDITION QUARTO THE LARGE PAPER VERSION WHICH WAS LIMITED TO 100 SUBSCRIBERS. TWO VOLUMES HALF LEATHER T.E.G. ILLUSTRATED BY THORBURN AND LODGE MAP TO THE REAR OF VOLUME 2. A HANSOME SET BUT WITH SEVERE SCUFFING TO THE LEATHER WITH SOME LOSS AT THE CORNERS. TIGHTLY BOUND AND CLEAN. FROM THE LIBRARY OF GERALD LONGLEY PARKER WITH HIS BOOKPLATE. HE WAS A SOLDIER AND SERVED AS THE PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND WAS THE SON OF THE SIXTH EARL OF MACCLESFIELD. THE BOOKS WEIGH 5.6 Kg. VERY SCARCE.
NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH 475 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES AS WELL AS THE 26 COMPOSITE PLATES HE PREPARED FOR THE UNPUBLISHED BIRD MAN`S RIVER. A SCARCE BOOK.
LIMITED TO 940 CLOTHBOUND COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 172. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. OBLONG QUARTO. A NEAR FINE COPY (SOME MARKS OF FOXING TO THE PRELIMS.) IN A NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER (FADED COLOUR TO THE SPINE).