Wyatt (Claude W.). British Birds: being Coloured Illustrations of all the Species of Passerine Birds Resident in the British Isles, with Some Notes in Reference to their Plumage, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, London: William Wesley & Son, 1894-9, 67 hand-coloured lithographic plates, some heightened in gum arabic, all plates and text-leaves mounted on guards, top edge gilt, near-contemporary red crushed half morocco, gilt spine, faint cockling and soiling to linen sides, 4to (32.1 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Fine Bird Books p. 158; Freeman 4170; Mullens & Swann pp. 666-7; Nissen IVB 1027; Wood p. 638 ('fine hand-colored plates'); Zimmer p. 694. A very good copy of 'the best "working" book of [bird] illustrations: the artists having avoided the too common fault of over-colouring the birds figured' (Mullens & Swann); the colourists were the daughters of R. Bowdler Sharpe, with whom Wyatt produced A Monograph of the Hirundinidae (1899). The second volume also depicts resident and migrant Picariae, Striges, Accipitres and Columbae.
Wyatt (Claude W.). British Birds: being Coloured Illustrations of all the Species of Passerine Birds Resident in the British Isles, with Some Notes in Reference to their Plumage, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, London: William Wesley & Son, 1894-9, 67 hand-coloured lithographic plates, some heightened in gum arabic, all plates and text-leaves mounted on guards, top edge gilt, near-contemporary red crushed half morocco, gilt spine, faint cockling and soiling to linen sides, 4to (32.1 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Fine Bird Books p. 158; Freeman 4170; Mullens & Swann pp. 666-7; Nissen IVB 1027; Wood p. 638 ('fine hand-colored plates'); Zimmer p. 694. A very good copy of 'the best "working" book of [bird] illustrations: the artists having avoided the too common fault of over-colouring the birds figured' (Mullens & Swann); the colourists were the daughters of R. Bowdler Sharpe, with whom Wyatt produced A Monograph of the Hirundinidae (1899). The second volume also depicts resident and migrant Picariae, Striges, Accipitres and Columbae.
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