Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands

Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897. First edition, 7 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 16 cm), original green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 421 chromolithographic plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs as issued, bookplates (C. W. Higgs), spines sunned, variable spotting, chiefly to margins [ Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann pp. 354-5; Nissen IVB 563]