1931 Birds of the Seashore

Description

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

First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixty-eight full-page drawings. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive work on birds of the seashore, with chapters studying the different families of bird species and their habits for feeding, mating, and song. Written by Harold John Massingham, a prolific British writer of ruralism and matters of the countryside or agriculture. Illustrated by Joseph Van Abbe, or J. Abbey, a Dutch-born British illustrator, Ernest Ellis Clarke, an English artist, and Eric Fitch Daglish, a British engraver and author.