Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls / by Nellie Blanchan ... ; with introduction by G.O. Shields (Coquina) ; and forty-eight colored plates.
Neltje Blanchan (1865-1918)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124669
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 359, [5] p., 48 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 8vo. Shelved and uniform with Blanchan's "Bird neighbors" (New York, 1900). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Fairhaven crest with motto 'Si je puis' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark green cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; white lettered title in centre panel of double white fillets on upper board; white lettered spine; green top edge.
Makers and roles
Neltje Blanchan (1865-1918), author George O. Shields (1846-1925), author