EDWARDS, GEORGE

A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS [GLEANINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY]. LONDON: WILL. GARDINER AND OTHERS, 1802–1806 (WATERMARKS 1816–1824)

7 volumes, folio (485 x 295mm.), engraved additional title and portrait, both plain, 362 hand-coloured engraved plates, nineteenth century half morocco, plate 75 holed with loss, some spotting to text of the Gleanings, a few marginal repairs, plate 304 torn through and repaired

The large-paper edition of Edwards’s ornithological ꦗclassic, with sumptuous hand-colour.

“[The plates] appear as though they had been transferred from drawings or printed sheets, and not printed from copper plates… All the plates are exceptionally finely colored and♕ of softer finish than those of the original edition” (Zimmer).

LITERATURE:

Mullens and Swa🎃n, p.196 (suggesting only 25 copies wer𝐆e printed); Nissen IVB 286; Zimmer, p.201

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