Author: Mrs. Hugh Blackburn [Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn]
Title: Birds from Moidart and Elsewhere
Description: Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated ornithological study from Scottish illustrator and ornithologist Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page, and eighty-seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive study of the bird-life of Moidart, part of the remote and isolated area of Scotland, west of Fort William, known as the Rough Bounds. With chapters on osprey, golden eagles, buzzards, kestrels, owls, redwings, hedge sparrows, herons, swans, cormorants, and much more. Written and illustrated by Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn, a Scottish ornithologist and painter whose work often illustrated rural life in nineteenth-century Scotland. She became one of the most popular illustrators in Victorian Britain and achieved widespread recognition under the initials JB and B, or her under her married name Mrs. Hugh Blackburn. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: B [Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn]. Very Good .

Keywords: Birds Moidart Elsewhere Blackburn Moidart B [Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn]


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