John Guille Millais: 'Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illu...

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£200

John Guille Millais: 'Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them', London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1892, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece + 16 colour lithographic plates, 18 plates in autotype + 30 wood engraved illustrations in the text as called for, all tissue guards present, plates by J.G. Millais and G.E. Lodge, folio (40 x 32cm), original half red morocco gilt by Blunsow & Co. for Sotheran & Co., top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Carlos Rein Duffau to front pastedown. A Lovely copy of Millais' well-known monograph on the four primary species: Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan.