James Edmund Harting | The ornithology of Shakespeare, 1871, the author's own copy

The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting

The ornithology of Shakespeare. London: John van Voorst, 1871

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 135mm.), illustrations, some authorial annotations, numerous cuttings, notes and pieces of ephemera loosely inserted, original cloth with falcon hood motif gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, some wear to binding

THE AUTHOR’S COPY.

LITERATURE:

Swift 248.01

PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, bookplate and note “Author’s Copy November 1871”; Downside Abbey, book label, inkstamp