Bishop's Birds. Etchings of Water-Fowl and Upland Game Birds. Foreword by Colonel Harold P. Sheldon.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1936.
Price: $850.00
About the item
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
The frontispiece is an original etching, “Trumpeter Swan”, titled and signed by the artist.
