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    By W. Swaysland; R. Kearton
    London   Cassell & Company, Limited
    8" by 5.5" viii, 160, (16); viii, 160, (16); viii, 160, (16); viii, 176, (16)pp.
    A complete four volume set of this brightly illustrated work on familiar British birds.
    By W. Swaysland; R. Kearton

    c1885 Familiar Wild Birds

    London   Cassell & Company, Limited
    8" by 5.5" viii, 160, (16); viii, 160, (16); viii, 160, (16); viii, 176, (16)pp.
    A complete four volume set of this brightly illustrated work on familiar British birds.
    £130.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 906T62
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    Description

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

    Complete in four volumes. First, second, third, and fourth series. A collection of descriptions of common and familiar birds from across Great Britain, with details of their haunts, habits, eggs, and appearance. Written to encourage the identification of common birds. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-nine colour plates. Collated complete. Written by W. Swaysland, a British ornithologist and author. With a chapter on eggs and egg-collecting from Richard Kearton, a British naturalist and one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers along with his brother Cherry. Dated from the University of Cambridge Libraries.

    Condition

    In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge failed to volume two. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper.

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