1946-1947 Meet Us in the Garden; The Year in the Countryside

Description

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

The first edition, first impressions of these works. 

With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrappers.

A set of two delightful illustrated volumes containing the author's observations of British birds and wildlife commonly spotted in gardens and countrysides. 'The Year in the Countryside' lays out the common species, habitats and natural changes found across each month of the year. 

Beautifully decorated throughout both texts with scraperboard illustrations by Stanley Herbert, a British commercial artist active in the 1930s to 1960s.

Written by Frances Pitt, a British naturalist and pioneer of wildlife photography.