Original green cloth boards with new brown leather spine having raised bands with gilt titles and decoration. New bookcloth hinges. Top edge gilt. No date but c 1870. Illustrated with colour representations, drawn from life by Harrison Weir and printed in colours by Leighton Brothers. 188pp + index and ad for other books. Front endpaper and frontispiece have torn edges, now professionally repaired. Some foxing and marking throughout, heavier on prelims and frontispiece. Size: 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall.

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Title: Pigeons: Their Structure, Varieties, Habits, and Management.
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Harrison Weir
Condition: Good

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Voted one of The Guardian's 10 best secondhand bookshops Scrivener's Books has over 40,000 volumes on five floors covering everything from antiquarian and scarce books to sheet music, maps, prints, children's books and the latest in modern fiction. We are open 7 days a week and our shop also includes a tiny Victorian museum. Situated in Buxton in the High Peak, we are near the Market Place where there is plenty of parking for visitors. Our in-house Bookbinders restore antiquarian and modern books. They also make books to order; call to talk to them about your book projects or repairs or to buy their handmade books and book kits.

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