Author: [ANDREWES (Thomas)]:
Title: The Bird-Keepers Guide and Companion; containing plain directions for keeping and breeding Canaries, and Goldfinch and Linnet Mules, and all other song birds. As well as Practical Recipes for the cure of those disorders to which they are liable, in which the cause is shewn why so many birds are found dead in their cages, and why so many young birds are destroyed in the breeding season; with the best methods of prevention, the German method of teaching birds to sing tunes. Directions for making German paste, &c.
Description: London: Dean and Son, 11, Ludgate Hill... [no date], [1856] 12 (in 6s), 154 x 94 mms., pp. xii, 69 [70 blank, 71 - 72 adverts], with newspaper clippings pasted to bottom of page 69, coloured engraved frontispiece of canary, contemporary half sheepskin, marbled boards (dulled); some slight wear to binding but a good copy, with the contemporary autograph "Eliza [?Anderson] on the top margin of the Preface, and a note on the verso of the title-page which appears to be in the same hand: ""Canary losing its Feathers. Add a little linseed in place of the kemp with a little hard-hard boiled egg once or twice a week."

Keywords: birds zoology prose


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