FIRST EDITION QUARTO THREE VOLUMES COMPLETE. REBOUND IN FINE BROWN HALF LEATHER RAISED BAND NEW ENDPAPERS GILT TILES AND DECORATION TO THE SPINES. VOL 1. FRONTISPIECE vii iv 487 pp.; VOL 2. FRONTISPIECE iv 310 appendix (224 pp) supplement (28pp); VOL. 3. ARMOURIAL PLATES (126pp). EACH VOLUME HAS TWO BOOKPLATES ONE BEING THAT OF CHARLES RODEN FILGATE OF MATLOCK. SOME LIGHT FOXING TO THE PRELIMS OTHERWISE AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET IN A FINE BINDING. POSTAGE AT COST.
VERY GOOD COPY IN MARBLED AND HALF LEATHER BOARDS. CROSS BANDED SPINE. SMALL AMOUNT OF FOXING. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR.C. HART MERRIAM ORNITHOLOGIST.
TO WHICH IS ADDED A LETTER TO THE REV. WHITE KENNET IN DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL LIBRARY. THIS IS THE THREE PARTS BOUND IN ONE PLUS THE LETTER TO KENNET. QUARTO A MODERN BINDING IN FULL PLAIN LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS PROFESSIONAL REPAIR TO TITLE PAGE MINOR RUBBING TO THE LEATHER OF THE SPINE. VERY GOOD.
LIMITED TO NUMBERED 550 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 360. SIGNED BY WHISTLER. 47 PAGES OF TEXT AND 82 PAGES OF MONOCHROME ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY GOOD COPY IN BLACK CLOTH WITH BEVELLED BOARDS. SLIGHT FOXING TO THE FEP.
