1863 Rare Book on Birds ~ My Feathered Friends by Naturalist Rev J. G. Wood
Author : John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood (illustrations by Harrison Weir)
Title : My Feathered Friends
Publisher : London, Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863. First thus.
Language : Text in English
Size : 7 "X 4.5 "
Pages : 396 pages
Binding : Very good and scarce attractive decorated original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Good to very good content (bright, tight, rare foxing or staining, some pages margins roughly cut/openned - as shown, with the armorial bookplate of Henry Birkbeck on the front paste-down end-paper and his autograph on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper) .
Illustrations : Including a frontis and some full pages illustrations by Harrison Weir.
The book : Scarce binding for this book by the famous Victorian naturalist Rev J. G. Wood,
The author: John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood, (21 July 1827 – 3 March 1889), was an English writer who popularised natural history with his writings.