THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF PIGEONS, With Standards for Judging. Edited by Lewis Wright. Illustrated with Fifty Life-Like Coloured Plates, from Paintings by J.W. Ludlow.

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Fifty colored plates + text illustr, 11 x 9, 3/4 blindstamped and gilt ruled leather with patterned green cloth, spine is highly decorated with slightly raised bands, red spine label with gilt lettering, marbled edges and endpapers, 392 pp. Covers worn, rubbed (esp back cover), shelfworn, foredge fraying, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, spine tips chipped, leather scuffed/scraped, loss of leather along outer hinges, front inner hinge cracked, rear cover detached, title page heavily spotted and soiled else scattered spotting and soiling , two pages and one plate have a vertical tear on either top or bottom margin, plate that is supposed to be opposite page 311, "Satinette and Sub-Varieties" was bound in opposite page 211, lacks tissue guards else complete and good. Originally issued in 50 parts.

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THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF PIGEONS, With Standards for Judging. Edited by Lewis Wright. Illustrated with Fifty Life-Like Coloured Plates, from Paintings by J.W. Ludlow.

Editor

Cassell, Petter & Galpin: London, Paris and New York nd (1874-76?)

Fecha de publicación

1874

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