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THEIR HABITS AND TREATMENT First Edition 1893 title page undated, The British Library date this book to 1893 a beautifully produced and fine example of this well illustrated book on all aspects of keeping pet animals, with chapters on Dogs, Cats, Canaries and other Cage Birds, Parrots, Cockatoo’s, Magpies, Jackdaws, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Mice, Rats, Squirrels, Hedgehogs, Doves and Pigeons, the book is bound in bevelled edged pictorial boards titled in gilt, 8.5 inches tall approx., 112 pages and beautifully illustrated throughout CONDITION the cover have some mild edge wear rubbing, mild darkening to cloth else in overall very good condition, internally old presentation bookplate presented by The Royal Leamington & Warwickshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to front pastedown, some browning to endpapers, foxing to outer page edges, a few minor foxing marks else contents in good general condition Member of the P.B.F.A.
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