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Burton Maurice

Wild Animals of the British Isles. [First Large Format Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST LARGE FORMAT EDITION

Warne, 1968

62.10 €

Island Books (Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1968
Author
Burton Maurice
Publishers
Warne
Keyword
natural history, ww, wayside and woodland, mammals, animal life, maurice burton
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of green faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The successor to 'Step's' Animal Life (1921), and effectively a new book substantially extended and rewritten by Burton in 1960. This is the first appearance of the work in the larger 'Reference' format. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Marren, pp. 154-156.