A NATURAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH SONG-BIRDS Including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing : their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures To which are added figures of the cock, hen, and egg of each species, exactly copies from nature a new edition corrected, with several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds

Fourth edition, first published 1737. Crown 8vo (190 mm); (iv), 107, (5) pp. engraved frontispiece and 23 further engraved plates, each depicting the cock, hen, and in most cases the egg of a common English song bird (ie Starling, Sky-lark, Bullfinch, Wren and Linnet). Includes the final advertisement leaf. Rebound sometime later in half calf over marbled boards with spine divided into six compartments by raised bands; new endpapers; staining and damage, now repaired, to foot of the pages, not affecting the engravings of the birds or their eggs. Zimmer, p3. Lowndes 25. Anker 7. Each of these beautiful engravings is accompanied by a text which identifies the male and female of the species by distinguishing marks, reports its description and character and discusses when and where it makes its nest.