W.H. Hudson; Charles Dixon; Oliver G. Pike; Anthony Collett; T.A. Coward — Birds in Britain

London, Longmans, Green, and Co.; Grant Richards; T. Fisher Unwin; Macmillan and Co.; Frederick Warne, 1897-1931. Cloth. Five charming volumes on British ornithology, including colour plates, photographs and numerous illustrations of different species and their eggs. Five illustrated volumes on Birds in Britain, including works from ornithologists Charles Dixon and W.H. Hudson. An attractive group, with colour plates and numerous photographs. In the publisher's original cloth.Birdwatching remains a popular pastime in Britain and this group of works is a useful illustrated guide to better know our local feathered friends.- British Birds, by W.H. Hudson, with a Chapter on Structure and Classification by Frank E. Beddard. Contains eight colour plates by A. Thorburn, including a colour frontispiece, as well as eight monochrome plates by G.E. Lodge, and numerous in-text illustrations by R.B. Lodge. Collated complete. (Longmans, Green & Co. 1897).- Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology, by Charles Dixon, with illustrations by A.T. Elwes. Contains a frontispiece, and all fifteen other illustrated plates. Collated complete. (Grant Richards, 1902).- In Bird-Land with Field-Glass and Camera, by Oliver Pike, Illustrated with 83 Photographs Taken Direct from Nature by Pike. Second Popular Edition. Contains a frontispiece of the Garden-Warbler and in-text illustrations throughout. Contains publisher's original advertisements to the rear. (T. Fisher Unwin, c.1902).- A Handbook of British Inland Birds, by Anthony Collett, with Coloured and Outline Plates of Eggs by Eric Parker. Contains a frontispiece, and ten plates of different collections of eggs to the front of the book. Collated complete. (Macmillan and Co. 1906).- Bird and Other Nature Problems, written by T.A. Coward. Contains a frontispiece and all twenty-three other photographic plates by M. V. Wenner, A. and H. Britten, Ad. Burdet, T. Baddeley and Coward. Collated complete. (Frederick Warne, 1931). In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, smart, with minor fading and the odd faint mark to boards, a little heavier to Hudson. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, a little heavier to Collett and Hudson. Rubbing to joints and edges, a little heavier to Hudson, lighter to Pike and Dixon. Slight fading to spine of Pike. End papers of Hudson and Coward are clean, with previous owner's ink inscription to front free end paper of Coward, and bookplates to pastedowns and front free end paper of Hudson. The odd small spot to front end papers of Pike, and slight wear to hinge of rear end papers. Offsetting and the odd spot to end papers of Collett and heavier to Dixon. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinge between leaves pp. 144-145 and 224-225 of Pike and to hinge between plate and p.177 of Dixon. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to half-title and last leaf of Coward, the odd spot to the extremities of Hudson and Dixon, heavier to Dixon, most to p.177, and age toning with signs of browning to Pike. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .