[Hand-Colored Plates]. The Feathered Tribes Of The British Islands Mudie, Robert Illustrated Books

Third edition of Mudie's study of the birds of Britain, which features 19 handsome engraved hand-colored plates plus additional woodcut illustrations. Artist William Strutt's copy, with his ownership inscriptions and date in each volume. 8vo. 2 vols. xxiv, 379pp., [1]; [2], 391pp., [1]; plus plates as called for. Good plus in publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine, sunned, rebacked with original back strip, rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, plates clean and contents generally clean and tight though with a few pages with margins restored or repaired tears, occasional light spotting and finger-soiling, dampstaining to pastedowns, and vol. II with spine lean.