Glimpses of bird life pourtrayed with pen and pencil.
James Edmund Harting (1841-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1880
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3220279
Summary
Bibliographic description
v, [41] p., [XX] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; fol. (42cm). Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown "Vauncey Harpur Crewe with his mother's love Jan[uary] 1, 1881" [i.e. presented to Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt (1846-1924), son of Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt, and Georgiana Stanhope Lovell]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full red cloth, gilt and black embossed panel, gilt centre-piece of two birds. Gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. All leaves detached.
Makers and roles
James Edmund Harting (1841-1928) L. P. Robert L. P. Robert