TRADITIONAL BRITISH POULTRY BREEDS. By Benjamin Crosby.

2012 1st edition. 4to paperback (190 x 246mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout, brief bibliography.

A detailed guide, for the smallholder and backyard poultry-keeper, to dozens of traditional British breeds of chickens and ducks. The ancestry and uses of each breed are discussed, as well as other points of practical insterest. The book is divided into five sections: British poultry breeds, history and definition; The uses of British poultry breeds; Domestic fowl A-Z; Domestic fowl, auto-sexing breeds; Waterfowl, domestic ducks and geese.