BLAKSTON W.A. W. SWAYSLAND and A.F. WIENER.. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds British and Foreign.. c.1880, 1880.

Price: US$335.90 + shipping

Description: London: Cassell & Co. n.d. circa 1880. Thick 4to. Orig. hf. morocco slightly rubbed. Spine extra gilt. A.e.g. viii 448pp. With 56 full-page coloured chromolithographs and num. wood-engrv. text-illusts. Slight foxing otherwise a fine and complete copy. Scarce.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

BLAKSTON W.A. W. SWAYSLAND and A.F. WIENER.. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds British and Foreign.. , 1880.

Price: US$369.49 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: London: Cassell & Co. n.d. ab.1880. Thick 4to. Later cloth boards. VIII448pp. With 56 full-page coloured chromolithographs and num. wood-engrv. text-illusts. Some slight foxing otherwise a fine and complete copy. Scarce.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Blakston, W. A.; Swaysland, W.; & Wiener, August F.. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880.

Price: US$386.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Circa 1880. Thick Quarto. viii, 448pp. Complete with 56 attractive colour plates. Bound in a full beige cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some rubbing and soiling to extremities. Occasional marginal pencil annotations of a former owner. Otherwise contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Good+' copy.

Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom

Blakston, W A & Swaysland, W & Wiener, August F. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds, British and Foreign. Cassell & Co, 1880.

Price: US$412.24 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: hardback, thick quarto, measuring 11" x 9", undated but first published in 1880 and reprinted several time through the decade, this copy was rebound in May 1888 in dark green half morocco with green cloth sides, lettered and ruled plainly in gilt to the spine, cloth lightly marked, the binding remains tight and robust, chromolithographic colour frontis and fifty-five further plates, b&w illustrations to the text. Scattered foxing throughout, viii + 448 pp

Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom

BLAKSTON W.A. W. SWAYSLAND and A.F. WIENER.. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds British and Foreign.. c.1880, 1880.

Price: US$638.21 + shipping

Description: London: Cassell & Co. n.d. circa 1880. Thick 4to. Orig. illust. cloth with bevelled boards recased; covers discoloured. Gilt. viii 448 8pp. With 56 full-page coloured chromolithographs each with a protective tissue-guard and num. wood-engrv. text-illusts. A fine and complete copy. Scarce.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia