Subscribers’ Edition, number 87 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, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Apart from some light foxing on the fore edge this is very good copy with the cream cloth sides clean and bright and the leather unmarked.
First published on 8th June 1940
The limitation page reads, ‘The Birds of South Africa, Subscribers’ Edition. Limited to 125 copies.
Copy no. 87
Presented to: Maldwyn Edmund, 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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