A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain. Volume I Only. by Sharpe, R. Bowdler - 1896

Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. No Edition Stated. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Notable staining to page edges. Moderate foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. No Edition Remarks. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Splitting and loss to spine joints, head and tail. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Ink stain to spine at front board.

London: Iliffe Books, 1898. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A. T. Elwes.. Edition and printing of this 1898 edition not known. Ex library book. In good plus green cloth boards with image in green and gilt of bird and gilt titles to front and also to spine and to rear board; the spine has a number referring to when a library book. The boards are a little wobbly from cracked joint, flat and quite clean; spine ends and corners bumped and frayed. Tanned free end papers; faded library stamp and number sticker to front paste down. Gilt top cut edge; the fore and tail edges are age-toned. The text block is quite tight, straight and not tanned or foxed, very good condition and excellent for age. With lovely b/w illustrations by A. T. Elwes. No dedications etc. One more faded library stamp on a Prelim. Without jacket. Sound copy for age.

London, UK : Edward Lloyd. 308 pages incl. index, 27 colour plates, b/w drawings within text. Half-bound in brown/black leather with gilt lettering to spine between raised bands. Condition of cover: Corners to front board scuffed. Back board partially damp-stained and discolored, corners bumped, else light shelf-wear. Content: Light foxing to prelims and tissue guards o/w clean and bright. Tight binding; appears unused. . Good. Hardcover. 1896.

Maurizio Martino, 1994. This facsimile edition was strictly limited to 125 copies. Photo frontis, 375 pages.. Reprint. Hardcover. New.

W.H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1896. Hardcover. Good. . Blue cloth spine with marbled boards. Tanning to spine, rubbing at edges. General shelf/age wear. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Paperback / softback. New.

W.H. Allen & Co., 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No Edition Remarks. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Marbled paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Volume III. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

GB: Edward Lloyd, 1896. Not dated but perhaps about 1896. An original part in pale buff printed paper wrappers without a title page. Text 113-224 pages. Ten superb colour plates (numbered XII-XXI). Plates mostly in nice condition but text shows some wear and use. Spine worn with minor loss. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Paperback. G++.