Pheasants : their lives and homes / by William Beebe ...
William Charles Beebe (1877-1962)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100980
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "9/37". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: medal awarded to author, 18 November 1919, for 'pre-eminence in zoology or paleontology'; gilt lettered title in dark green panel on spine; green top edge.
Makers and roles
William Charles Beebe (1877-1962), author New York Zoological Society , commissioner