Published by Gibbings & Company 3rd edition, London, 1900
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good-. Tinted plates (24) + 56 wood engravings in the text. Small quarto green ribbed and blindstamped cloth (tips worn/bit marked to lower fore-edge) xxviii +231pp. Small ownership stamp of E.A. Ellis (Edward Ellis naturalist author) to corner of half title + pencil inscription M.P. Cockle dated Margate 1917. Inner hinge slightly pulled else very crisp and tight. 1 volume. Hardcover.
Published by William Mackenzie, London: 69, Ludgate Hill. E.C. Edinburgh and Dublin
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LYDON A.F. [Alexander Francis] 1836-1917. (illustrator). 1st Edition. with Forty One Fine Coloured Plates. First edition, VG+, folio, full dark green morocco, rounded edges, elegant gilt & blind tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Internally, half title, coloured frontis, [7], (viii-xxvi), [1], 204 pp, 41 brightly coloured large folio chromo-lithographed plates, tissue guarded, 39 vignettes (B&W) and 25 illustrations within text, occasional very light foxing, a.e.g., gilt tooled turn ins, blue marbled endpapers, small bookseller label to fpd (Gilbert). (372*277 mm). Drawn from nature by LYDON A.F. A very handsome copy, beautifully bound. Houghton, a Shropshire clergyman, aimed his book at the fisherman rather than the naturalist, and the text (of which there is, unusually, plenty) gives information about recognition, feeding and breeding habits, habitat, bait and so on (Buchanan - Nature into Art, 168. Nissen ZBI 2009. Anker 59, Nissen IVB 136 . Bree).