kidd william hammersmith (2 resultados)

THIS VOLUME ONLY. 23.8x15.8 cm. 416 pages. Hardcover. Gilt spine. Cover and spine yellowing and rubbed. Cover corners, edges and spine edges bumped and worn. Ex library copy with usual marks. Pen inscription on front white page. Few page corners slightly wrinkled. Several pages age stained. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.

4to. 4.25 x 6.5 inches. viii + 26 + 26 + 28 + 34 + 36 + 32 + 48 pp. + 8 pp. advertisements. (one dated 1856). Separate title pages for each part. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt decorated by blind stamping and gilt blocks, now almost worn away. All edges gilt. Extremities worn and scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by wood engravings, including frontispiece. Decorated by title page and head and tailpiece vignettes and by initials. Collected edition of a work issued in seven parts. There is an emphasis on providing suitable aviaries for the different species, reflecting the Victorian desire to cage their song birds. Kidd (1802-67) advises 'What birds should be selected, and what rejected.' NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE BIRDS NATURAL HISTORY BIRDS 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE.