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Birds I Have Kept in Years Gone By. by William Thomas GREENE

Creator: Thomas GREENE
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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GREENE, William Thomas.

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Birds I Have Kept in Years Gone By.
With original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully.

Stock Code 111369
London, L. Upcott Gill, 1885

Current price$320.00
The first edition of this sweet memoir by William Thomas Greene, detailing the Birds I have Kept in Years Gone By, illustrated with 16 hand-finished chromoxylographs.

First edition; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); 16 hand-finished chromoxylographs, frontispiece tipped-in to to title, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth, gilt macaw to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, minor wear to spine ends and corners, internally clean, a handsome copy; viii, 198pp.

Trinity College, Hartford p.109.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	111369
Incollect Reference #:	700333

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