Lot 292
Millais, John Guille
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The Natural History of British Game Birds. [1909], folio (41 x 32cm.) author's copy of first proofs, signed, 17 coloured plates (most chromolithographs on thick paper), tissue guards, 17 uncoloured plates (7 signed by the author), three with caption added in pencil, four with pencil notes, initialled, to printers, text mounted on guards throughout, several pages of text with proof corrections by the author, several leaves of text stamped "Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, revise" with date in pencil, red half morocco by Sotherans, spine gilt in compartments, a few pages of text lightly spotted, bound without the title, first text leaf being A1 [p.1]
Footnote
Note: Inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper "Author's copy of first proofs, bound by Sotherans Sept. 1911, J.G. Millais, Comptons Brown, Horsham" with a pencil note "Given by JGM to be sold at the Red Cross sale at Christie's. Bt. by J.W.R."