2 volumes, 4to (288 x 210 mm). 22 plates tipped-in with the suite of duplicate plates. (Occasional spotting primarily to text.) Publishers original brown and green cloth gilt, top edge stained blue, others uncut and unopened (bump to top edge, spines lightly sunned); extra suite of plates, loose as issued in publisher's printed envelope (chipping). 

LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 large paper copies SIGNED BY HUDSON, with plates by Henrik Grønvold, the Danish naturalist, artist, and taxidermist best known for his illustrations of birds and their eggs. Hudson spent much of his career working both officially and unofficially for the Natural History Museum, London.