The birds of Great Britain.
John Gould (1804-1881)
Category
Books
Date
1873
Materials
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 3149145
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v., plates : chiefly col. ill. ; fol (56 x 38 cm.) Numbered in blue pencil: 22-23.x. Provenance: non-indigenous. Gift to the Trust of Margaret Higgins (of Clifton on Teme, Worcester); arranged by Richard Webb and Jeffery Haworth; passed to Attingham via Croft Castle. Binding: nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt fillets and gilt tooling with oak leaf pattern on borders; gilt tooled spine; all edges gilt. (Some scuffing, discolouring and minor blemishes on leather.)
Makers and roles
John Gould (1804-1881), author William Matthew Hart (1830-1908) Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902) Joseph Wolf (1820 - 1899)