Hayes | Portraits of rare and curious birds, with their descriptions, from the menagery of Osterley Park, 1794

BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE EARLS OF HADDINGTON, LOTS 54-108

HAYES, WILLIAM, AND FAMILY

Portraits of rare and curious birds, with their descriptions, from the menagery of Osterley Park. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1794

FIRST EDITION, 4to (280 x 215mm.), 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after Hayes, his wife, and children, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, gilt edges, without the view of the menagerie (as often)

A FINE COPY.

LITERATURE:

Nissen IVB 422 (variant title); Zimmer p.294

PROVENANCE:

Sophia, Countess of Haddington (wife of the 8th Earl, d.1813), ownership inscriptions