SELBY (JOHN PRIDEAUX)


Illustrations of British Ornithology, 4 vol. (comprising atlas in 2 volumes and text in 2 volumes), FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 218 hand-coloured etched plates by and after W.H. Lizars, Robert Mitford, William Jardine and Selby, 4 uncoloured etched plates, paper guards throughout, very occasional light spotting, contemporary green half morocco, spine elaborately tooled within raised bands, g.e. [cf. Fine Bird Books, p.141; Mullens & Swann, p.520; Nissen IVB 853; cf. Wood, pp.561-562; cf. Zimmer, pp. 571-572.], text 8vo, atlas double elephant folio (692 x 545mm.), text Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1833; atlas Henry G. Bohn, 1841
|"OUR ENGLISH EQUIVALENT OF AUDUBON'S GREAT WORK" (Mullens and Swann): Bohn's edition of Selby's spectacular life-size ornithological plates.Provenance: "Langhouse, Inverkip, Renfrewshire" (the residence of Dr. Johnstone Macfie, nineteenth century member of the Glasgow Natural History Society), blindstamp on front free endpapers; De Goederen, Amsterdam, 8 June 1960.