Description
First edition of Thomas Sidney Cooper’s outstanding study of cattle.
Critics both contemporary and modern agree that ‘the plates are unsurpassed in their sheer brilliance of execution’ (Westwood) and confirmed Cooper’s artistic reputation throughout Europe.
British Broadsheet, illustrated with 26 fine tinted lithograph plates, including the title page. Bound in half red morocco, with marbled boards, raised bands to the spine, compartments richly decorated with ornate Acanthus leaf gilt tooling and lettering and marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. London: C. Hullmandel, for Ackermann & Co., 1839.
