Thorburn clarke (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Vintage hardback anthology, no dustjacket, published by Collins, c.1925. Colour frontispiece & b&w illustrations throughout. Bumping to spine & boards, such that book is no longer straight. Some scratches & marking to spine & flyleaf, light tanning to pages. Fair vintage copy. uncredited (illustratore). book. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A wide ranging collection of 7 illustrated works on bird life, habitats and species, featuring several first editions. An uncommon and varied 7 volume collection of informative ornithological titles.Featuring 2 first editions - 'Nature-Tones and Undertones' and 'Lost and Vanishing Birds' - and several very scarce titles, in volumes 1, 4 and 7.Each work is punctuated with a large number of illustrations.Volume 1 features monochrome frontispiece and 15 further monochrome plates.Volume 2 features a monochrome frontispiece and 9 further monochrome plates.Volume 3 features a colour frontispiece and 18 further monochrome plates.Volume 4 features a colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates, as well as many vignette illustrations.Volume 5 features 37 monochrome plates.Volume 6 features a monochrome frontispiece with facsimile signature, and 10 further monochrome plates.Volume 7 features a monochrome frontispiece and 17 further monochrome plates. Collated, complete. Bound in original cloth. Externally, very smart. Mild shelf wear. Occasional mild age toning to end papers. Vol5 rear hinge slightly starting. Contemporary ink inscription to vol2 vol6, vol7 front free endpapers, vol3 front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Occasional strain. Pages generally bright and clean, with occasional spotting. Spotting to text block edges. Mark to vol2 p.5 and vol2 p.73. Vol2 rear free endpaper removed. Pen mark to one page of vol3. The odd leaf unopened. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated; Charles Whymper; J. Wolf; A. Thorburn; Allen W. Seaby; H. Stannard; J. Maclair Boraston (illustratore). book.…