YOU’LL FIND MANY LISTINGS FOR THIS BOOK, INCLUDING THESE FOUR:

1890    £ 242.52 Convert currency £12.41 Shipping From Ireland to United Kingdom (Seller IMAGES)                                                      13cm x 19.5 cm. 71 pages plus several pages of historical advertising. Hardcover/ Original, illustrated publisher's cloth in protective collector's mylar. Binding a little shaky but overall in very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains an inscription by Professor J.H. Pollen from the year1892. Includes for example information and illustrations of ...More

1913    £ 159.09 Convert currency £40.55 Shipping From Canada to United Kingdom          (No Image)

12mo. pp. 96. 22 colour plates (incl. frontis.). A very good copy in a prize binding of contemporary navy blue calf, spine richly gilt, gilt edges, Christ's Hospital,London gilt crest on upper cover: Foster White Prize, presentation bookplate.

1905   £ 31.12 Convert currency £23.85Shipping From Canada to United Kingdom            (No Image)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Green Boards with gilt graphic of a birds nest, 96 pages plus adds. There is no dust jacket. Seventh edition reprint of the enlarged edition.

1898    £32.75 Convert currency £4.30Shipping Within United Kingdom    (Seller IMAGES)

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1898. Cassell and Company. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles and decoration on green boards. Pages are clean with clear text. Plates are all present. Previous repair with tape to tissue guard on second plate. Spine is cracked. Spine is sunned and torn. 8x6

THIS LAST ONE IS IN DREADFUL OUTER CONDITION – TATTY WITH BITS HANGING OFF AND SEVERAL INSCRIPTIONS ON FLYLEAF, ONE CROSSED OUT. THE SPINE IS SO DISCOLORED, IT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COLOR, WITH ALL ORIGINAL PIGMENT DESTROYED. PERSONALLY, I’D DONATE THIS TO A CHARITY SHOP RATHER THAN ASK A FULL MARKET PRICE FOR IT –THE GRADE WOULD BETTER BE “ACCEPTABLE”. I’D ONLY OFFER IT FOR SALE IF I COULD NOT FIND A COPY ONLINE. AT LEAST THE SELLER PROVIDES PHOTOS OF THE ACTUAL ITEM.

This book (see photos) seems to have been constantly in print since it was first published in 1890, going through several editions, mainly by Cassell, but lately (2022) by Legare Street Press.(£28.15). The one offered here is the hardback 1900 fourth printing of the second edition. It has a green ink presentation inscription on the flyleaf dated 1902. The main fault is that the tissue guard to the illustration between pages 48/49 is missing. Other than that, it is in good, complete condition with some foxing internally and a degree of grubbiness to the outside. I don’t think this was issued with a dustjacket and may not have spent much time on a bookshelf, though the title lettering on the spine is not quite as bright as the front cover. I think it may have spent time on a mantlepiece as the top is darker than the base. It is bound in green boards embossed on the back with the publishers logo and embossed on the spine and front with the title and illustration which have been gilt in gold-color metal leaf. There are signs of wear on the leading corners, but the top and bottom of the spine have minimal rubbing and are fully intact.

Obviously a classic work which has been constantly available for a century and a quarter, a “print on demand” (stock photo) is advertised on Abebooks for the odd prices of £8.61, £9.67 or £28.15 (same publisher), so careful with the clicking!. The author died in 1928, so any new edition after that will have additions or alterations not written by him. I mention this as this 1900 version has a reference to the (happily false) extinction of the bearded tit due to the exceptional harsh winter of 1894, the author writing from his own observations. In 1896, the enlarged 2^nd edition was released, of which this is the4^th printing.

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