DEVLIN John C.MareMagnum
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19988vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, coloured plates, photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY ROGER TORY PETRSON ON HALF-TITLE. SIGNED COPIES OF THE UK EDITION ARE SCARCE.
1895Roy. 8vo., Second Issue, with a frontispiece, 17 plates and 50 illustrations in the text (the plates and illustrations from photographs by T.A. Cotton), half-title lightly browned; original pictorial pale blue cloth, upper board with three goldeneye and title to an art nouveau design in dark blue, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition. A lovely copy of a scarce work. . Cotton) half-title lightly browned; original pictorial pale blue cloth upper board with three goldeneye and title to an art nouveau design in dark blue gilt back uncut a remarkably bright clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition.
1931Roy. 8vo. Second Edition with folding map; original cloth a very good clean copy. Scarce especially in this condition.
19708vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal stamp in blind on front free endpaper.
19798vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1985Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and maps (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of this invaluable standard reference.
19748vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and endpaper maps, small initial on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on half-title verso.
19744to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and large folding map; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
1969Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, pland and diagrams; coloured p[ictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
19898vo., First Edition, with illustrations and diagrams in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear.
1952Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 67. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19804to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations ( a number full-page) by the author in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. SCARCE.
19008vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; terracotta pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in white and black, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, firm, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Charming account of bird life and behaviour at the turn of the nineteenth century in the parish of Hainford, Norfolk. VERY SCARCE.
1965Folio, First Edition, with 130 fine coloured plates of birds, and pictorial endpapers; sage green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled, and lightly creased and frayed at edges. SCARCE.
1988Folio, with coloured and numerous fine coloured plates (many full-page) throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fine copy of this modern reissue.
1930Sm. 4to., Third Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 176 coloured illustrations of birds and eggs by Thorburn, 65 monochrome photographs by Kearton and pictorial endpapers, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original series binding of publisher's maroon leather-effect cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean, firm copy.
1944Roy., 8vo., Fifth Impression, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 19 fine coloured plates and numerous plates in monochrome; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, upper board unevenly sunned, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. First published in a limited edition in 1938.
1941Roy., 8vo., Fifth Impression, with coloured portrait frontispiece, vignettes on half-title and title, 15 fine coloured plates and 46 plates in monochrome; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean, fresh copy. First published in a limited edition in 1935.
19508vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 19 monochrome plates on 16, and 2 illustrations and 20 maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, boards very lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel. New Naturalist Monograph, 2. With dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1909Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tisue guard present), title in red and black, 17 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), 17 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and 2 illustrations in the text; original burgundy cloth, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt, red buckram back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 494). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. Mullens & Swann, p.406; Tate, p.235.
19132 vols., folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispieces (original tisue guards present), titles in red and black, 37 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present) and 35 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original burgundy buckram, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, upper boards faintly faded at extreme upper edge else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 450 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 118). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BUCKRAM IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. Anker, 342; Mullens & Swann, p.406; Tate, p.235.
1902Roy. 4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with coloured frontispiece (original tisue guard present), illustrated and printed titles, printed title in red and black, 41 fine coloured plates (8 by Thorburn, 33 by Millais; all original tissue guards present), 6 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), and 25 plates in monochrome; original two-tone green cloth, boards in olive, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, darker green back framed and lettered in gilt, gil top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 423). Anker 340; Mullens & Swann, p.406; Wood, p.464.
19408vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates and illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
1955Sm. 4to., First Edition, with plates, free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19532 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, First Issue, with 2 coloured frontispieces, 36 coloured plates, 76 monochrome plates on 42, a full-page map in the text, and a double-page map in red and blue with a full-page graph, some light marginal spotting to first leaves on each volume, fore-edges mildly spotted; original dark blue buckram, gilt back, blue tops, a very good, clean set in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and spotted at fold-ins. One of the finest of all modern county avifaunas, the set comprises vol I: Black-Throated Diver to Puffin; vol. II: Pallas's Sand-Grouse to Snow-Finch. The frontispieces and coloured plates are from paintings by the author. 'In 1953 Dr. James Harrison published 'The Birds of Kent', a comprehensive historical work in two volumes which goes into great detail on the occurrence of sub-species as well as full species. This book is illustrated with many photographs mostly of mounted specimens and coloured paintings by the author'. (Tate). This is the first issue binding of dark blue buckram (rather than the later cloth). The dustwrappers are cream printed in red and black. Tate (1985), p.94.
