Ɵ LOW, David. (1786 - 1859). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. two volumes bound in one, first edition, folio (440 x 350mm), brown half morocco, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, half-titles, 56 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Fairland after W. Nicholson, from paintings by W. Shiels, including sections on the horse (8 plates), the ox (22 plates), the sheep (21 plates), the goat (unillustrated), and the pig (5 plates). David Low was professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, and commissioned the artist William Shiels to paint portraits of the animal subjects from which the lithographed plates were made.
Ɵ LOW, David. (1786 - 1859). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. two volumes bound in one, first edition, folio (440 x 350mm), brown half morocco, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, half-titles, 56 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Fairland after W. Nicholson, from paintings by W. Shiels, including sections on the horse (8 plates), the ox (22 plates), the sheep (21 plates), the goat (unillustrated), and the pig (5 plates). David Low was professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, and commissioned the artist William Shiels to paint portraits of the animal subjects from which the lithographed plates were made.
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