Adams, H.G. & H.B. The Smaller British Birds. With descriptions of their Nests, Eggs, Habits etc. 2nd. Ed. Pub. Gibbings and Co. 1894
pp.iv, 252 with 16 colour plates of birds by A.F. Lydon and 16 colour plates of eggs. Small 4to. Bookplate to ffep. Some spotting very largely confined to end-papers and fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original, gilt decorated boards in thor. vg. condition.
Informed and charmingly written. Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) was a British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer (of Driffield), to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age.
£95.00 [Ref: 62932]