Author: Patrick R Chalmers
Title: Birds Ashore and a-Foreshore
Description: London, Collins, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Large ornithological volume by Patrick Chalmers and Winifred Austen, the first edition. The first edition of this work. Collated, complete with sixteen coloured plates. Enclosed in the original, price clipped dust wrapper.Ornithological study by Irish writer and banker Patrick R Chalmers. Featuring delightful chapters on the birds of the foreshore and estuary, accompanied by bird lore and legend from the Arctic Circle to the tropics.  With poems previously contributed to 'Punch' magazine added to the expert descriptions of the appearance, habits and flight of the various birds. With illustrations and watercolour plates by Winifred Austen, popular English illustrator and painter, known for her stunning paintings of birds. Here is the first book containing reproductions of her paintings. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine, closed tear along head of front joint, light bumping to extremity of boards. Dust wrapper sound with light loss to head and tail of spine and extremities, tape repaired to head and tail of spine internally to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Winifred Austen. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: birds ornithology first editions winifred austen ornithology Winifred Austen


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