Summer Studies of Birds and Books
- Publisher : MacMillan
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 1 b/w plate
Description:
First edition. A selection of 'lectures and papers', on the subject of birds or books, many of which originally appeared elsewhere, e.g. Natural History Societies or Macmillan's Magazine, but here altered and to some extent rewritten. Chapters include: Among the Birds in Wales; The Marsh Warbler in Oxfordshire and Switzerland; A Chapter on Wagtails; On the Songs of Birds; Aristotle on Birds; Gilbert White of Selborne; Bindon Hill, etc. The author wrote a number of works on birds, and Mullens & Swann describe them as being written in 'a pleasing as well as scholarly vein' and 'always ... Held in esteem'.
Mullens & Swann p. 221.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, gt, light spotting to page edges. Vg.
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