J. White London: 1802, First Edition, octavo (5-1/8" x 8-1/4") volume. Two volumes bound in one in vellum boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First Collected Edition, with a biographical preface by the author's nephew, John White. Illustrated with four engravings, two folding, including two hand-colored engraved plates of birds one of which is folding. Foredge painting depicts two men on a poll-boat in a river with distant landscape with rolls of hay, trees to the left and right with ducks in flight. Oposite image, man in a top hot, river-side, fishing with distant landscape. Even, mostly mild, foxing. Spine starting, swollen.
100/200 Sold $379.50
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