Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations

Philip Rickman

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, London, 1938

About this Item

Philip Rickman's beautifully illustrated volume of observations and sketches of British birds. The first trade edition of this work.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-two further plates, all the work of the author. Collated, complete.A charmingly illustrated study of British artist Philip Rickman, including depictions and descriptions of such birds as the Goldfinch, Herring-Gull, Whooper Swan, and Swallow.From the library of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper label to front board. Light handling marks to front board head and tail. Front hinge a touch strained to head and tail, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 914F8

Bibliographic Details

Title: Bird Sketches and Some Field Observations

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, London

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Philip Rickman

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book