A History of British Birds: Vol VII by Morris, F.O - 1900

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1900. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition - volume V. No publication date stated (not 1900). The boards and spine are edgeworn with minor marks; bumps and fraying to the edges, corners and spine ends. The spine is cocked. Small sticker on front pastedown. Tanning and foxing on the pages throughout plus some creases and nicked edges at various points. The binding is weak at a few points, however, all plates and content remain present and the text and drawings are clear. Occasional discreet marginalia noted. Beautifully illustrated, colours are vivid and true. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1900. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition - Volume II. No publication date stated (not 1900). The boards and spine are edgeworn with minor marks; bumps and fraying to the edges, corners and spine ends. The spine is cocked. Small sticker on front pastedown. Tanning and foxing on the pages throughout plus some creases and nicked edges at various points. The plate beween pages 24 and 25 is detached from the binding; the binding is weak at a few points. Notes written in fountain pen on p.114 and reverse of the plate opposite. All plates and content are present, and despite some minor blemishes within, text and drawings are clear. Beautifully illustrated within, colours are vivid and true. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1900. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition - Volume I. No publication date stated (not 1900). The boards and spine are edgeworn with minor marks; bumps and fraying to the edges, corners and spine ends. The spine is cocked. Tanning and foxing on the pages throughout plus some creases and nicked edges at various points. Hinge break and gutter breaks have caused a small selection of the pages to become detached from the binding, however, all content is present (43 plates), and the text and drawings are clear. Beautifully illustrated within, colours vivid and true. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1900. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition - Volume III. No publication date stated (not 1900). The boards and spine are edgeworn with minor marks; bumps and fraying to the edges, corners and spine ends. The spine is cocked. Small sticker on front pastedown. Tanning and foxing on the pages throughout plus some creases and nicked edges at various points; the opening page corners are marked. The binding is weak at a few points. Notes written in fountain pen on the reverse of BEP. All plates remain present and the text / drawings are clear. Beautifully illustrated, colours remain vivid and true. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. 4th edition. Green cloth, gilt motif. V.g./No Jacket. A well-preserved set; no inscriptions.

LONDON: George Bell & Sons, 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II, III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine (with no loss) and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I, II, and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the… Read More

Six volumes. Bell and Daldy, London. 1870. Second edition.. Hardback.. 365 hand-coloured plates. Blind-stamped green cloth with gilt decoration to front boards and spines. Very Good (minor foxing to initial pages; title page to Volume 1 bears small closed tear). Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.

Nimmo, 1897. Fourth edition. Text block and plates Fine, bright, clear and remarkably free of foxing. Bookplates to pastedowns. Boards Fine with light rubbing and occasional scuffs to leather.. Six Volumes. Three quarter brown leather over marbled boards with matching marbled edges and endpapers.