Author:
ST JOHN Charles
Title:
Wild sports & natural history of the highlands. Introduction and notes by the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell . & fifty illustrations, thirty being reproduced in colour, from pictures by G. Denholm Armour & Edwin Alexander.
Price:
£160.00
Year:
1919
Edition:
1st thus Edn
Publisher:
T.N.Foulis
City of Publication:
Edinburgh & London
Summary:
xxix, [1], 471, [1], [4] ads; top edge gilt pages uncut small 4to, illustrated with 39 plates, 28 of them in colour and mounted, plus other vignette illustrations in the text. Armorial bookplate to the front paste down some occasional light browning. The deluxe issue printed on handmade paper and bound in the publisher's full vellum binding with gilt title to the upper board and standing stag vignette limited to 250 copies. A finely illustrated and produced book of Charles St Johns classic work on highland sport and natural history first published in 1846 and much reprinted.
Ref:
22783
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