British Game Birds and Wildfowl

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In contemporary half calf over cloth, some repairs, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, gilt titles to black morocco label. Internally, [3], (iv) only, [1], 2-252 pp, 60 pls (coloured), ink name to fep verso (M Criner), marbled endpapers & text block edges, occasional light spotting. news paper article tipped to ep. With a smaller coloured plate of a Greenshank tipped to verso of the pl at p138/139. Plates by Fawcett of Driffield. A much better than normal copy. (308*244 mm). (Anker 345; Nissen IVB 644. Zimmer II, 442). Beverley Morris was a younger brother of Francis Morris, the famous ornithologist. "A collection of accounts of British game birds, with a statement of the distribution and habits of the species and descriptions of the birds, their eggs and nests, and notes on their value as articles of food. Most of the forms treated are figured on the hand-coloured plates (wood-engravings),