1953-1963 The Birds of the British Isles

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of each volume, published between 1953 and 1963.

Volumes I, II, III and IV are flat signed by Bannerman to the title page.

In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrappers.

Illustrated with forty-one coloured plates to volume I; forty-one coloured plates to volume II; fifty one coloured plates to volume III; twenty-nine to volume IV; thirty-four to volume V; twenty-six to volume VI; twenty-seven to volume VII; twenty-six to volume VIII; twenty-six to volume IX; twenty-three to volume X; thirty-two to volume XI; thirty-one to volume XII. With each plate retaining the original captioned tissue guard.

Collated, complete.

A wonderful, alphabetically arranged study of British birds by renowned ornithologist David Bannerman, the Curator of the British Museum of Natural History from 1919 to 1952. Bannerman provides species identification, distribution, migration, and breeding behaviours of each species discussed. 

For this work, artist George E. Lodge painted three-hundred and seventy-seven images depicting four-hundred and thirty-five species.