The romance of bird life : being an account of the education, courtship, sport and play, journeys, fishing, fighting, piracy, domestic and social habits, instinct, strange friendships and other interesting aspects of the life of birds / by John Lea, … ; with twenty-six illustrations.
Lea, John, 1871-1958
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257467
Summary
Bibliographic description
375, [9] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "5/-". Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): water birds; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped bords with nest, gilt lettering and red and white stamped birds on spine.
Makers and roles
Lea, John, 1871-1958, author