Dixon, Charles and Whymper, Charles. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of The British Islands. De Luxe 2nd. Ed. Pub. Pawson & Brailsford. 1900
pp.xxviii, 476 plus 41 mounted colour plates by Charles Whymper. Large Paper Edition (39cm x 29cm). Hardback. AEG. De Luxe edition of only 35 copies with 35 named subscribers. Contains the armorial bookplate (to front pastedown) and signature (to half-title) of this copy’s original subscriber - Richard Carlyon Coode. Some spotting to contents very largely confined to text leaves o/w. contents fine. Superbly recased in original binding of quarter leather over pictorial boards all in nr. fine condition just lightly rubbed to extremities. A very pleasing copy of the scarcely seen De Luxe edition.
The preferred second, enlarged and improved edition.
£1,000.00 [Ref: 71971]