Bishop's Birds. Etchings of Water-Fowl and Upland Game Birds. Foreword

by Colonel Harold P. Sheldon by Richard E. Bishop

$850 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

Bishop, Richard. First edition. Number 91 of 135 copies signed by the author. With an original signed etching Trumpeter Swan as frontispiece and 73 etchings reproduced in aquatone. 1 vols. 4to. Original publisher's vellum, blocked in gold with pattern of geese in flight on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut. Minor toning to spine, and covers, else fine. Heller 2:604. Item #256566

• Binding: Leather

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