Description:
Millais, John Guille (1865-1931) Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1892. First Edition, folio, with portrait frontispiece of Bewick, sixteen colored plates, eighteen black-and-white plates, and thirty text wood engravings by the author and George Lodge, bound in publisher's red half morocco, cloth boards blocked and lettered in gilt, a monograph on the four primary species of game birds: Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan; 15 1/4 x 12 in.
Estimate $200-250
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