— The Feathers & Fur Picture Book

London, George Routledge and Sons, [1886] . Cloth. Very scarce children's work on animals and birds, beautifully illustrated with over thirty colour plates by the Brothers Dalziel. Very scarce.In publisher's original cloth binding with paper plate pasted to front board.Featuring a frontispice, illustrated title page, thirty further colour plates and numerous monochrome vignettes. Collated, complete. Engravings by the prominent Brothers Dalziel, printed at their Camden Press.Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1887.Delightful children's book on mammals and birds. Text is informative but takes on an engaging and fantastical tone. Including chapters on tropical birds, rabbits, elephants, and more. In publisher's original cloth binding with paper plate pasted to front board. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1887. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to minor loss of cloth, mainly to spine head and tail. A couple of chips to the pasted plate. Light marking to the rear board. Internally, binding weak with pages 3 to 26 loose. Page 25 suffers from noticeable tearing, which effects the plate on the reverse. Further small closed tears to edges of loose pages. Light spotting throughout. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .