A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations: … Illustrated by numerous engravings. By William McGillivray, …
William MacGillivray (1796-1852)
Category
Books
Date
1837 - 1839
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3239209
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates : ill. ; 22cm (8vo). Imperfect: vols. 1 & 2 only. Priced in pencil: 2 vols 12/6 Augt. 1898. Provenance: inscribed (v.1, first free endpaper): "Presented to Miss Paxton 26 January 1852"; "Godfrey Mosley 1906"; on titlepage "Adrian Wayte". Binding: nineteenth-century half green calf (faded to brown on spine), with marbled paper boards; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered red spine label: Maggillivray's [sic] British birds. Binder's label (v.1): J. Winstanley, 81 Fountain Strt. Manchester.
Makers and roles
William MacGillivray (1796-1852)