HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS (2 Volumes, Thumb Print Edition) + A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS (1 Volume, Second and Best Edition) (3 Volumes in Uniform Binding) The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick

British Birds 2 Volumes, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES (Thumb Print Edition, p.175 Volume I). Quadrupeds, Second and Best Edition (Larger and Improved Edition published just a year after the First). 3 Volumes in Uniform Bindings. 8vo. full mottled brown calf, rebacked using original spines with raised bands, dark red and dark green title labels, gilt, with gilt decoration to spines and gilt borders to boards. All edges lightly speckled in blue. Marbled endpapers. 335pp., 400pp., 483pp. All volumes profusely illustrated with Bewick's woodcuts. Pencil notes to early blanks of Volume I. Bookplate and red sticker to front pastedown of Volume II. Occasional light foxing, heavier to prelims and parts of Volume III. Ink smudges to foredge of Volumes I and III. Covers somewhat rubbed and edgeworn but overall a VERY GOOD, HANDSOME SET.