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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1905. New edition, revised by Edward Step, F.L.S.. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Illustrated with 315 colored plates figuring upwards of 1500 species. Pratt [1806 - 1893] was one of the best known English botanical and ornithological illustrators and authors of the Victorian age. 4 volumes published in different years, small 4to, v1 269pp (1899) , v2 279pp (1905), v3 258pp (1905), v4 215pp (1900), blue decorated cloth binding, embossed design on front cover, with gilt titles on spine and front. Color plates throughout. OCLC 499929334 lists the 1st volume 1899 and vols. 2-4 of the 1905 edition. Covers dusty, rubbed at edges and spine tips. Some foxing on first and last pages, not affecting plates or text. In vol. 4 plate 305 listed twice. A very pleasant readable copy.

London: Frederick Warne, 1905. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. About 250pp each with indexes in volume 4. Fine full-page color litho plates #'d to 318. Frontispieces tissue-covered. Revised edition by Step. Floral embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt tops. Foxing on a few early pages. Spine of volume 1 rubbed others very good condition.

London, Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition (revised).. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xiv, (1), 1-269; xii, 1-279; xi, 1-258; xi, 1-213 with 319 fine colored plates after paintings by Anne Pratt. Original one-half black morocco leather over dark green leather-covered boards, spine with five raised bands each decorated with small gilt horizontal lines and sent off by double gilt panel lines, red morocco title label in one compartment lettered in gilt, volume numbered stamped in gilt in one other compartment and with gilt floral design vignette in the remaining four other compartments, all page edges are spectacled in red, lg 8vo. According to Edward Step, who revised the volume: "All the coloured plates have been specially compared for this edition with the carefully hand-coloured originals; and the colour printing has been thereby improved." Indeed, the colored plates are bright with crisp edges to the flowers and leaves and with vivid coloration. This copy is… Read More