Millais, J.G. British Deer and their Horns. 1st. Ed. Pub. Henry Sotheran. 1897
pp.xviii, 224 with many illustrations in text, coloured frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations and 10 electro-etched plates. Folio. Hardback. The 10 electro-etched plates have some scattered foxing, very largely confined to their borders. Text very clean. Original illustrated binding lightly marked in places, showing a little rippling on boards, overall in vg. condition. Overall a vg. copy.
One of the first in-depth treatments of any group of British mammals. Superbly illustrated. J.G. Millais was a professional artist and dedicated naturalist. He spent years familiarising himself with the animals he illustrated in the interests of portraying them accurately.
£350.00 [Ref: 32175]