Description
Complete first edition set of Wild Beasts and Their Ways by Samuel W. Baker.
Octavo, [two volumes], xiv, 419pp; viii, 379pp. Three quarter morocco, red cloth boards with gilt-ruling. Title in gilt on spines, five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, red silk bookmarks sewn in. Bound by Morrell Binders in London. Solid text blocks, lightly bumped corners, faint toning to edges. Previous booksellers’ labels affixed to front and rear pastedowns. Complete set with frontispiece in each volume, twelve plates in Volume I and thirteen plates in Volume II. (Czech 16)
