Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pages in red and black, 243 photogravure, colour, chromolithographic or halftone plates after Millais, Thorburn, and others or from photographs, tissue-guards, very occasional light spotting, a few chromolithographic plates with light paper residue from tissue-guards, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spines sunned to tan, a couple of small tears to morocco on backstrip of volume 2, large 4to (34.2 x 30.2 cm) (Qty: 3) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen ZBI 2819; Wood p. 464 ('Truly beautiful reproductions of the artist's best work'). First edition, number 548 of 1,025 copies only, this copy with two autograph letters signed from Millais, dated 3 March and 22 June, with pencil annotations by David Wilson dating the letters specifically to 1905 and identifying the recipient as naturalist Charles Oldham (1868-1942); there is also an envelope annotated by Wilson, 'Two autographed letters by author to Charles Oldham, from Oldham's copy bought by Anthony Cheke from Wheldon & Wesley'. In the first letter Millais responds to Oldham's criticism of his description of voles (see volume 2, pp. 234-5); in the second he solicits further advice on voles and acknowledges his use of Oldham's 'excellent notes on the noctule [bat]' (see volume 1 pp. 61-75).
Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pages in red and black, 243 photogravure, colour, chromolithographic or halftone plates after Millais, Thorburn, and others or from photographs, tissue-guards, very occasional light spotting, a few chromolithographic plates with light paper residue from tissue-guards, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spines sunned to tan, a couple of small tears to morocco on backstrip of volume 2, large 4to (34.2 x 30.2 cm) (Qty: 3) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen ZBI 2819; Wood p. 464 ('Truly beautiful reproductions of the artist's best work'). First edition, number 548 of 1,025 copies only, this copy with two autograph letters signed from Millais, dated 3 March and 22 June, with pencil annotations by David Wilson dating the letters specifically to 1905 and identifying the recipient as naturalist Charles Oldham (1868-1942); there is also an envelope annotated by Wilson, 'Two autographed letters by author to Charles Oldham, from Oldham's copy bought by Anthony Cheke from Wheldon & Wesley'. In the first letter Millais responds to Oldham's criticism of his description of voles (see volume 2, pp. 234-5); in the second he solicits further advice on voles and acknowledges his use of Oldham's 'excellent notes on the noctule [bat]' (see volume 1 pp. 61-75).
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