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A Year with the Birds

by An Oxford Tutor [Fowler, W. Warde]

Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
Publisher : B.H. Blackwell
Published In : Oxford
Illustrations : frontis

Description:

First edition. 500 copies printed. William Warde Fowler (1847-1921) was an English historian and ornithologist. In this work he describes his experience of bird watching in the city of Oxford, the Alps and in a midland village.

Mullens & Swann p. 220.

Condition

8vo, orig. quarter mock vellum (soiled, lightly scuffed), blue cloth boards, gt title to spine and front board, teg, other edges uncut, endpapers foxed. Related newspaper cuttings pasted to rear endpaper. Vg. Signature of T. Herbert Warren (1853-1830), Magdalen College, Oxford to endpaper, and bookplate of John S. Gayner.