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FEATHERED FAVOURITES. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds by Joseph Wolf - Paperback - First Edition - 1854 - from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB (SKU: 3445)

FEATHERED FAVOURITES. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds

FEATHERED FAVOURITES. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds by Joseph Wolf - Paperback - First Edition - 1854 - from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB (SKU: 3445)
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FEATHERED FAVOURITES. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds

by Wolf, Joseph

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  • Paperback
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London: Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street, 1854. Original red grained cloth, bevelled edges, gilt title within an elaborate gilt wreath design to upper board, ornate gilt spine design, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy bond paper. Pp. [vi], [54], + 12 circular chromolithograph plates (with tissue guards) surrounded by an ornate gilt wreath frame and followed by poetry featuring that particular bird. Poems by Barry Cornwall, James Montgomery, James Grahame, John Clare, Charlotte Smith, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Milton, and many more. Expertly rebacked with original spine strip laiddown, covers lightly age soiled, tips very lightly rubbed. Light foxing to the plates primarily on verso, otherwise a very good copy of this first edition of only the second bird book to be illustrated by chromolithography. Wolf was considered by Sir Edward Landseer to be, "without exception, the best all-round animal painter that ever lived." (DNB). . First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Large Octavo.

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Bookseller
Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB CA (CA)
Bookseller Inventory #
3445
Title
FEATHERED FAVOURITES. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds
Author
Wolf, Joseph
Format/binding
Paperback
Book condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street
Place of Publication
London
Date published
1854
Keywords
Birds; Ornithology; Chromolithograph
Bookseller catalogs
Illustrated; Natural History;
Size
Large Octavo

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