A Familiar History of Birds

446pp. Blue leather-covered boards, gilt borders on boards, gilt titles on brown spine label; five ribs. Bumped extremities. Wear to boards. Gilt edge dentelles, blind embossed inner dentelles. Text block edges and endpapers marbled. Prize plate on front paste down. Light foxing to prelims. Gutter cracked at title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Written by the Lord Bishop of Norwich and originally intended for a class of readers to whom mere scientific details would be unacceptable, if not unintelligible. 12mo.