Published by London : Peerage Books, 1984
ISBN 10: 090740877X ISBN 13: 9780907408772
Signed
Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed by Robinson on bookplate affixed to front free endpage. From the Art Reference Collection of wildlife artist and outdoorsman Alan James Robinson. This collection was used by Robinson to create his wonderful art and Cheloniidae Press books. (Great Britain, freshwater fish, early works, facsimiles).
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1879 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 212 Volume 1 Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1879 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 214 Volume 2 Language: English.
Published by London : Peerage Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 090740877X ISBN 13: 9780907408772
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; Physical desc.: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Subject:Freshwater fishes --Great Britain --Fishes, Fresh-water --Freshwater fish --Early works --Facsimiles. 2 Kg.
Published by London : Peerage Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 090740877X ISBN 13: 9780907408772
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; Physical desc.: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Subject:Freshwater fishes --Great Britain --Fishes, Fresh-water --Freshwater fish --Early works --Facsimiles. 2 Kg.
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).