Subscribers’ Edition, number 42 of 125 copies: xxxii, 463 pages, colour frontispiece with a tissue guard, list of subscribers, 56 colour plates, diagrams, half brick red morocco, titled gilt on the spine, cream cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt – bound by Leighton Straker Bookbinders Ltd., London. Light water staining on the leather at the top and bottom of the spine, light foxing on the backs of the plates but the printed rectos are unaffected, a very good copy.
First published on 8th June 1940
The limitation page reads, ‘The Birds of South Africa, Subscribers’ Edition. Limited to 125 copies.
Copy no. 42
Presented to: Paul & Andrew Rance by Bertie Moses, Dec. 1940.
Signed by the author, artist and Hon. Sec. and Trustee, S. African Bird Book Fund (John Voelcker)
H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd & Johannesburg, The Central News Agency Ltd.
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (225 x 155 mm)
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