The Wild-fowl And Sea-fowl Of Great Britain..
Bound in original grey pictorial cloth, gilt. Patterned endpapers. Deckled edges. Extremities a little worn but otherwise a fine clean copy. Inscription of James Stevenson Fort James on half title.
£20.00
Publisher
Chapman and Hall, Ld.,
Place
London
Date
1895
Synopsis
By a son of the marshes. edited by j. a. owen. with illustrations by bryan hook.
Item Description
8vo. 6 x 9 inches. [6] + 326 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 12 plates, including frontispiece.
Notes
An account of water birds and wildfowl, largely based on the author's personal observations. A Son of the Marshes is a pen name for Denham Jordan, who spent his childhood and youth on the foreshores and marshlands of North Kent. Jean Allan Owen (1841-1922) who was a prolific natural history writer edited several other books by Denham.
[Stock No. 22688]
Subjects
19th Century • Birds • Kent • Natural History • North Kent