c1880 Beeton's Book of Birds: Showing How to Rear and Manage Them in Sickness and in Health

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Scarce work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, five colour plates, and numerous in-text figures. Collated complete. A guidebook for those who are interested in the pleasure of "keeping" birds. With advice and tips on how to manage and care for all manner of birds during their health and any sickness. With information on such birds as the cockatoo, the goldfinch, the mocking-bird, the nightingale, and the raven, amongst many others. Written by Samuel Orchart Beeton, an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs Beeton (Isabella Mary Mayson) and publisher of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. He also founded and published Boy's Own Magazine, the first and most influential boys' magazine. Illustrated by British artists Harrison Weir and Richard Huttula. With publisher's advertisements to the rear.