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Published by Printed by John Chappell (Successor to R. Harrild), No. 41, Haydon Square, Minories, London, 1840
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. hand-colored (later?) frontis, 14 partial-page woodcut illustrations (one for each bird). Wrapper. Plain contemporary stiff wrapper (original?). 14cm. Browning and soil around edges of wrapper. Contents sound and clean although one leaf is so closely trimmed (as bound) so closely around fore-edge that there is no margin. Scattered foxing. There were earlier editions published by Harrild as well as some American editions. OCLC lists two copies of this edition (at the Newberry and Morgan Libraries). Newbury guesses that this was published in the 1840s and Morgan the 1820s. The fourteen birds illustrated and described are eagle, vulture, falcon, pelican, heron, cock, hen, turkey, swan, goose, duck, peacock, partridge, and magpie. One odd assertion is that turkeys in America and in the East Indies generally weigh 50 pounds. [page 25].
Published by Printed for John Chappell c.1820, London, 1820
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
40pp. With a hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece and 14 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Some marking and slight chipping to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. Apparently the 'Colored One Shilling' (as opposed to the 'Sixpence Plain') issue of this anonymous juvenile companion to British and foreign birds, the cuts for which have long, albeit erroneously, attributed to Thomas Bewick. 14 species are represented including the eagle, peacock, falcon, and pelican. Size: 12mo.