BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND THEIR EGGS. By T.A. Coward. First Series, comprising families corvidae to sulidae. Wayside and Woodland Series.

(1920) 1933 4th edition. Small 8vo (117 x 159mm). Ppviii,376. Frontispiece by A. Thorburn, colour plates of paintings, colour plates of paintings of eggs and birds, b/w photograph plates, b/w illustration, photographic end-papers. Brown cloth, gilt and black titles and bird motif to black-bordered upper board, spine titled in gilt.

# First Series, comprising families corvidae to sulidae. "With 242 accurately coloured illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and others reproduced from Lord Lilford's work "Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands" and 78 photographic illustrations by Richard Kearton and others." A minor classic, with good illustrations, especially the paintings of eggs.