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Detmold, E.J. (Illus); Dugdale, F.E. - The Book of Baby Birds

Title: The Book of Baby Birds
Description: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1919 120, 19 col plates. . HB. 4to (280x233mm), orig. cloth spine, paper covered boards, slightly marked, circular pictorial onlay to front board. Endpapers browned and lightly foxed. Small contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Good.. Reprint (originally published 1912). A charming book on the chicks and juveniles of various birds, with attractive mounted plates by Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), a prolific British illustrator who did extensive work in watercolour and etchings for natural history works. Descriptions by Mrs Thomas Hardy (Florence E. Dugdale) (1879-1937), second wife of novelist Thomas Hardy and author of several children's books..

Keywords: Birds; Ornithology; Children's Book

Price: GBP 75.00 = appr. US$ 107.10 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S55683

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