Millais's ..British.. Ducks - Volume with 41 Color Bird Plates, 6 Photogravures, & 25 Monochrome Plates

Artist or Author: J. G. Millais

Work: The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks

Date of Publication: 1902

Style: Volume with 41 Color Bird Plates, 6 Photogravures, & 25 Monochrome Plates

Paper Size: ~ 12 1/4" by 14"

Condition: The work is in very good to excellent condition overall. There is some occasional spotting to preliminary leaves but are otherwise very clean. There may be a few minor imperfections or faint marks to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions.

Description of the work:

This first edition work is J. G. Millais's The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks. The work was published in London in 1902 by Longmans, Green, and Co. This is copy number 407 of 600 done.

The volume is bound in contemporary red crushed half morocco gilt (done by Hatchards). The volume has frontispiece, 41 color bird plates, 25 in monochrome, and 6 photogravures. The color plates are by Thornburn (8) and Millais (33). The color and photogravure plates have the original tissue guards present.

Provenance: Bookplate of S. C. Lister, Sinton Park [Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857-1917)]