Birds and Man

[iv] 306pp. Beautiful colour plate frontispiece showing bird perched on a broom bush. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine (slightly rounded on corners and lightly rubbed at spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, with a partial prize plate pasted onto the front paste-down endpaper, indicating that the book was presented to one Daphne Goss as the ‘Gibbs Prize’. Originally published in 1901, this re-issue include two new chapters, appearing for the first time, and the chapter on birds in the metropolis has been omitted. Chapters include Owls in a Village, Geese – and Appreciation and a Memory; The Dartford Warbler; A Wood Wren at Wells; Birds and Man; Daws in the West Country; etc.