1938 Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations

Description

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

The first trade edition of this work.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-two further plates, all the work of the author. Collated, complete.

A charmingly illustrated study of British artist Philip Rickman, including depictions and descriptions of such birds as the Goldfinch, Herring-Gull, Whooper Swan, and Swallow.

From the library of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England.