The Bird

Michelet, Jules

Price: $85.00

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Place Published: London
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Date Published: 1868
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Decorated cloth boards
Condition: Good
Book Id: 001597

Description

340 pages; 210 b&w illustrations by Giacomelli; translated to English from the original French. In its time described as "an exquisite specimen of book-making"; "grace of style, beauty of description, and suggestiveness of sentiment"; "no dry treatise of natural history". One of a trilogy that includes The Sea and The Insect, which Michelet accomplished with his wife. Text block very clean and tight; boards and spine detached from the text in a single piece.Spine faded to dull; gilt embossed decoration on the front board is bright.

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