1903 A History of British Birds

Description

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

The fifth edition of this work, complete in six volumes, and uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth bindings.

Illustrated with a total of four hundred plates, coloured by hand.

Volume one contains sixty-two plates, volume two contains seventy plates, volume three contains sixty-four plates, volume four contains sixty-eight plates, volume five contains sixty-eight plates, and volume six contains sixty-eight plates. Collated, complete.

A detailed and comprehensive history of British ornithology, written to collect together all the known facts respecting the natural history of each and every British bird. This easily readable work provides figures on several special and corrects common misconceptions about others.

Written by Francis Orpen Morris, an Anglo-Irish clergyman, notable as a "parson-naturalist" for his work in ornithology and entomology. He was the author of many books on natural history, heritage buildings, and some children's books.

With handwritten bookplates to front pastedowns, and the stamp of La Societe Guernsiase Library to front free endpapers.