1870-1875 A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds

Description

Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The second edition of this comprehensive natural history of British birds' eggs and nests. Complete in three volumes. 

In the original cloth bindings. Ex-library, with associated stamps to the front boards and tails of the spines.

A substantial history and study of British ornithology and their nests and eggs, being a detailed work that has become a standard reference on the subject. This work provides the physical characteristics and patterns of a wide variety of British eggs and nests. 

Richly illustrated throughout with chromolithographic colour plates. 

Volume I is illustrated with seventy-nine plates; Volume II is illustrated with seventy-seven plates; Volume III is illustrated with seventy-six plates 

Collated, complete. 

Written by Francis Orpen Morris, an Anglo-Irish clergyman and "parson-naturalist" who authored many children's books and books on natural history. He was a pioneer of the movement to protect birds from the plume trade and was a co-founder of the Plumage League.