Live Auction 9967Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Travel and
Lot 26

LILFORD, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron (1833-1896). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles, London: Taylor and Francis for R. H. Porter, 1885-1897. 7 volumes, 8° (249 x 162mm.). Half tone portrait frontispiece and 421 hand-coloured or chromolithographed plates after Archibald Thorburn, J. G. Keulemans and others. (Some occasional unobtrusive spotting, some offsetting onto text). Contemporary green half morocco by R. H. Porter, top edges gilt. (Spines faded, a little rubbed with scuff marks). Provenance: Thomas A. Nelson (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Anker 308; Fine Bird Books p. 91; Freeman p.213; Mullens & Swann pp.352-4; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer p. 399-400 (Second edition only). (7)

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LILFORD, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron (1833-1896). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles, London: Taylor and Francis for R. H. Porter, 1885-1897. 7 volumes, 8° (249 x 162mm.). Half tone portrait frontispiece and 421 hand-coloured or chromolithographed plates after Archibald Thorburn, J. G. Keulemans and others. (Some occasional unobtrusive spotting, some offsetting onto text). Contemporary green half morocco by R. H. Porter, top edges gilt. (Spines faded, a little rubbed with scuff marks). Provenance: Thomas A. Nelson (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Anker 308; Fine Bird Books p. 91; Freeman p.213; Mullens & Swann pp.352-4; Nissen IVB 563; Zimmer p. 399-400 (Second edition only). (7)