Wild Animals of the British Isles
BURTON, Maurice
[First Large Format Edition.]
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST LARGE FORMAT EDITION
Published: Warne, [1968]
Stock code: 42406
Price: £54.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of green faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
The successor to 'Step's' Animal Life (1921), and effectively a new book substantially extended and rewritten by Burton in 1960. This is the first appearance of the work in the larger 'Reference' format. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Marren, pp. 154-156.