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MEYER (HENRY LEONARD) Illustrations of British Birds, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, Longman & Co., [1835-1841]
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MEYER (HENRY LEONARD)
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION, with all the characteristics called for by Hale, including the 5 egg plates. Hale describes in great detail the complex publication history of the work, locating 44 copies of this edition, many of which had varying numbers of plates due to the haphazard manner in which the work was published and Meyer's constant desire to improve the illustrations. The present set has the first issues of the title-pages (no full stop after Longman & Co), and the plates are numbered in ink in the lower right-hand corner, referencing their page number in Dresser's Manual of Palæarctic Birds, 1902.
Provenance: Arthur G. Hemming, presented to him by the London Assurance, 1931; Francis Hemming, bookplate.





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