Birds' Nests, Eggs and Egg-Collecting by R. Kearton - 1919

Cassell and Company Limited, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 1905. No edition remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. Reprinted. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front, and gilt illustration to front. Publisher's adverts to rear. Includes illustrated plates. Text block almost split in two. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Pen mark to rear pastedown. Gutters heavily cracked with exposed netting; text block almost split in two. Loose binding. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are moderately crushed and rubbed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Spine is slightly sunned. Gilt is bright.

Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1907. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Marking to both boards.

London: Cassell and company, 1907. Reprint (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 14cm), 96pp, 4pp adverts. 22 colour plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front board. Minor rubbing of the binding, light mark to the rear board, bookplate to the front pastedown, light spotting of the endpapers; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Cassell and Co., 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. No Edition Remarks. 71 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains colour plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Minor dog-eared corners. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to rear hinge and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Some splits to spine ends. Black marks and water staining to boards.

Hardback. New.

London: Cassell and Company, 1903. 96, [4]-ads, 16-publisher's catalogue, 22 col plates. . HB. Sm. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gt. Endpapers lightly browned. Vg.. Reprint of enlarged second edition (First published 1896). The brothers Richard (1862-1928) and Cherry Kearton (1871-1940) were some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers, who innovated methods to photograph animals in the wild, and published some of the first wildlife photography books and films..