x, 236 pages: illustrations, (13 electro etchings, including frontispiece), portraits. Folio. Handsomely rebound in green morocco leather & green cloth with gilding. Raised bands & gilding on spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Some very slight spotting on edges of plates as normally seen. Some spotting to preliminary pages, otherwise pages clean and bright.
"… a classic of the shooting world. Never before, or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings." The Daily Telegraph in 1895, on publication. See Mendelssohn vol. 2, p. 13.
- Binding Condition: Excellent
- Overall Condition: Excellent
- Size: 39 x 32 cms
