Animal Portraiture - Lydekker, Richard

50 magnificent mounted colour plates reproducing the original oil paintings by Wilhelm Kuhnert. Animals featured include beautiful studies of Lion, Manchurian Tiger, Seal, Elk, Capercaille, Squirrel, Roe Deer, Reindeer, Defassa Waterbuck, Hare, Polar Bear, Mandrill, Wolf, Wild Cat, Red Kangaroo, Blue Roller, Bittern, Kafir Crowned Crane, Silver Gull, Great Horned Owl, Flamingo, Nile Crocodile, White-Handed Gibbon, Abyssinian Green Money, Fox, Brown Bear, Pine Marten, Leopard. Interestingly William Kuhnert's name is omitted from this edition.

Hardcover. English. Frederick Warne & Co., London. No date ca 1912. viii, 105 pages including index with 50 colour plates with tissue guards, top end gilt. Heavy foxing on endpapers, half-title page and sporadically throughout. Plates are clean and bright. This edition for some reason makes no mention of Wilhelm Kuhnert, either in title or inside the text. Book No: 2501035