Beschreibung:

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909, half-title, 18 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece and 17 photogravure plates, all after Thorburn or Millais, 1 halftone plate, very light spotting to endpapers and a few text-leaves, original cloth, variably mottled and faded, spine nicked at head and frayed at foot, large 4to, together with: Millais (John Guille, editor), The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais 2 volumes, 1st edition, deluxe issue, London: Methuen & Co., 1899, 24 photogravure plates (mounted), 9 facsimile letters, spotting, a plates and facsimile letters working loose, index leaf in volume 2 loose, inscribed on the front free endpaper of volume 1 'Lilla - carissima mia, from John, 14 October 1899, Lillian J. Wilson, 9 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh' apparently all in the hand of the recipient, original decorative cloth gilt, spines sunned and rolled, volume 1 front inner hinge cracked, large 8vo (Qty: 3) British Game Birds: Nissen IVB 636; Mullens & Swann p. 406; Wood p. 464 ('This beautifully illustrated work'). British Game Birds is number 4 of 550 copies only, this copy inscribed by Millais on the initial blank, 'Author's Copy, J. G. Millais, Compton's Brow, Horsham, Oct. 25th 1909'; thence by descent. The tête-de-tirage, similarly inscribed, was sold in these rooms on 6 November 2019 (lot 214). The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais is number 241 of 360 copies.