A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, BEASTS, & FISHES. Embellished with…

A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, BEASTS, & FISHES. Embellished with Beautiful Engravings.

London: Ja.s Imray, No date [circa 1800]. 20 Featherstone St, City Road. Price Sixpence. 52 pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, engraved title with vignette of a parrot, and 14 wood-engravings in the text. Original marbled wrappers. 118 x 82 mm. Generally rather worn – particularly so the wrapper, the lower have some loss of marbled paper; lacks rear endpaper; ownership names to endpapers; also the book plate of Marjorie Moon; else a good copy of a rare title. Very little is known of Jas. Imray and all his books are scarce.

Book ID: 14196
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