Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting up Natural History Specimens of all Kinds

Description:

First edition, undated. Scarce.

Freeman 539.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title and vignette of tiger skin to front board, spine slightly faded, minor wear to extremities; light foxing to prelims. Vg. Bookplate of W.H.B Fletcher. William Holland Ballet Fletcher (1852-1941) was a landowner and local councillor. He and his wife shared a deep interest in natural history their residence in Bognor Regis, with its extensive gardens, is now known as Hotham Park.