Subscribers’ Edition, number 85 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 sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt – bound by Leighton Straker Bookbinders Ltd., London. The spine is slightly faded and stained along the edges of the back, the cream cloth is soiled as if often the case, 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. 85
Presented to: Roley Cullinan, Esq. Signed by the author, artist and Hon. Sec. and Trustee, S. African Bird Book Fund (John Voelcker)
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Size: 8vo (225 x 155 mm)
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