The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones

A fine copy of an edition limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 311. Bound in half leather over blue cloth boards and housed in a Solander box. Sixty tipped-in color plates by British army officer Major Henry Jones (1838-1921) reproduced from the original paintings bequeathed by the artist to the Zoological Society of London. Text by Peter J.S. Olney faces the plates. Oblong folio - 13 ½ x 17 ½ in.