1911-3 The British Bird Book

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Signed

The first edition, limited to 350 copies, of which this is no. 145. 

Signed by the author to the limitation page of Volume I. 

Complete in four volumes.

Uniformly bound in half crushed morocco with cloth to the boards.

A highly informative ornithological work written by British ornithologist, Frederick B. Kirkman. In this four-volume set, Kirkman presents an thorough account of the birds, nests and eggs found in the British Isles at the time of publication. The author provides a detailed description of the birds in question, accompanied by bright and colourful illustrations throughout.

Wonderfully illustrated, with two hundred brightly coloured plates and fifty eight in black and white across all four volumes.

Collated, complete.