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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

Illustrated with sixty coloured plates.

Stock Code 113957

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1864

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A handsomely bound copy of this substantial work, illustrated with sixty-one hand-coloured plates. Originally published in 1855, with Freeman giving the second edition as 1873.

Beverley Morris was a younger brother of the famous ornithologist and author Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893). The present volume comprises '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), made by B. Fawcett, who also printed the work' (Anker).

Tall 4to (32 x 25 cm); hand-coloured frontispiece and 60 plates with tissue guards, contents faintly toned, occasional spotting; contemporary red half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, binding a little rubbed with some wear at the corners, spine slightly faded, a very good copy; 252pp.

Freeman, British Natural History Books 2667.
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British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

MORRIS, Beverley.

Stock code: 113957

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