BANNERMAN

BANNERMAN, DAVID ARMITAGE - THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1953-1963. First edition, 11 volumes (of 12, missing vol 5), 4to, colour plates, very good in original green cloth, some tears to dust-wrappers; PERROTT, CHARLOTTE - A SELECTION OF BRITISH BIRDS London, The Publishing Partnership, 1979. One of 250 copies, large folio, 5 fine coloured facsimile plates, half morocco leather with marbled boards, complete with the original prospectus in a separate and matching binding, housed in the original quarter leather box, near-fine. A superb facsimile of the original, only 3 copies of which are known. Mrs Perrott planned a major work on British birds illustrated with coloured plates from her own drawings - but her premature death put an end to the project (12)