A History Of British Birds

Three volumes, complete. First Edition. 8vo (22 x 15 cms); pp xxxii, 528; [2], 672; 528. Illustrated by 520 wood engravings. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, raised bands to spine with two contrasting title labels, gilt filets. Edges of boards a touch rubbed here and there. nothing serious. Ex.libris Sir William Fitz Herbert, Bart, with his armorial bookplate laid down inside front board in each vol. A handsome set of this major work of British ornithology. William Yarrell was a zoologist, fellow of the Linnean Society of London and original member of the Zoological Society.