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WESTELL, W. Percival.
Everyone's Handbook of British Breeding Birds.

When and Where their Nests are built: what they are composed of: the Number and Colour of their Eggs: the Food they eat; the Nature of their Vocal Powers; and some Local and old fashioned names. Preface by W. E. GLADSTONE [dated 1897], Introduction by CLAUDE ST.JOHN.

Description:
pp. 188. Frontispiece, many text woodcuts and illustrations from photographs. Original decorated cloth, a little bubbled on the front board, front joint weak, one leaf with a lower edge tear without loss, cheap paper tending to brown at the edges.

*No.8 in the series Drane's Everyones & Popular Books. A cheap production but pretty and seemingly rather scarce; COPAC records the copyright locations of Oxford - Cambridge - British Library and the Natural History Museum.

Henry J. Drane. London.

Date Published: [1900].

Stock No. 59594

Price: £50.00

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