Winged Thoughts, First Edition (9 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER, w/dj. AS NEW. but for remainder mark on bottom edge. 128pp. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION WHITE 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER, w/dj. AS NEW. but for remainder mark on bottom edge. 128pp. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION WHITE 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER, w/dj. AS NEW. but for remainder mark on bottom edge. 128pp. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION WHITE 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Larry Lynes (illustrator). First. Copies; 2.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.6 inches; 128 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Leather bound book with tooled decorative borders and titles, stylized peacocks' tail to rear. For each of 12 birds is a beautiful chromolithographed plate and a verse of an emotion that each is theoretically meant to represent. Pages loose within leather cover, and missing The Swallow and Parrot plates. and facing title page.Remaining 10 colour plates and binding are still stunning .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FROM THE LIBRARY OF HENRY ROGERS BROUGHTON, LORD FAIRHAVEN. London: Longman & Co., 1851. Octavo (10" x 7", 255mm x 180mm) First edition. With 12 chromolithographed plates by E. L. Bateman. Bound in original blind-stamped calf, dentelles, gilt edges to text block. Directed by Owen Jones. Rebacked (by Brockman, with a report available on request). Each bird is illustrated with an accompanying poem on a related virtue. Lark/Cheerfulness, Dove/Peace, Swallow/Enterprize, Parrot/Luxury. Swan/Progress, Nightingale/Romance, Pheasant/Modern Sports, Falcon/ Ancient Sports, Woodpecker/Meditation, Eagle/Nobility, Peacock/Chivalry, Owl/The Past. Henry Rogers Broughton (19001973), second baron, was the brother of the first Baron Fairhaven (Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton), a title created for their father, Urban Hanlon Broughton, who died before it could be bestowed. Their mother was the heiress of Henry H. Rogers, the stupendously wealthy oil magnate who became a senior executive of Standard Oil. Armed with their grandfather's fortune, the Broughtons were able to buy and to maintain Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire. The second Baron Fairhaven amassed one of the great collections of natural history books and art (donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge). The present volume was bought from the second part of his epochal sale (Sotheby's London, 29 November 2022, lot 257 (£1,386)). RARE; not in Anker, Nissen, Zimmer or other standard bibliographies.

First edition, a lovely example of what McLean terms the "illuminated" Victorian gift book, by a titan of design. This collection of verse on various species of bird by the little-known Mary Ann Bacon (fl. 1839-1870, d. 1875) is accompanied by spectacular chromolithography. Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, 1972. Quarto. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs by Edward La Trobe Bateman. Original calf by Remnant & Edmonds blind-stamped with an elaborate design of feathers and stylized wings, the front board incorporating the title, the rear a peacock's tail, gilt inner dentelles, textured endpapers patterned with gilt feather design, edges gilt. Binding a little rubbed, shallow chips to some page edges. A very good copy.