vii, 102 pages, LI leaves of plates color illustrations 31 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne
Date:
1924
Notes:
Printer from colophon
"This edition is limited to 50 signed and numbered copies of which 45 are for sale" --Verso of title page
Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress tissue guardsheet which is not included in the pagination statement
Printed on parchment-style paper
A general trrade edition was also issued by the Cambridge University Press in the same year
Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 38
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library part 1, page 15
SCNHRB copy 39088002535029 is number 4 of the limited edition, signed by E.C. Arnold
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Alexander Wetmore, Sixth Secretary, 1946-1953; with Wetmore's autograph in ink on the front free endpaper
SCNHRB copy has a handwritten note in ink on the front free endpaper (unsigned; perhaps by an agent of the publisher?): Stock sold to Simpkin Marshall, 1937
SCNHRB copy has the publisher's green cloth binding with gilt-tooled vellum spine
Summary:
"A series of random notes on European and American shore-birds, with colored drawings of the various species discussed" --Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
