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Wallace, R. L.
British Cage Birds: Containing Full Directions for Successfully Breeding, Rearing, and Managing the Various British Birds That can be Kept in Confinement.
Publisher: L. Upcott Gill, London;
Date of Publication: 1895
Stock Code: 10240
Octavo, pp. viii, 504. 32 full-page engraved plates of which 15 are chromolithographs; 27 figures within text. Half dark chocolate-brown polished calf with gilt titles and fillets to spine and cloth-covered boards; re-cased retaining original spine and boards. Lower joint repaired; very slight loss at head of spine; boards lightly scuffed, with dent to edge of upper board. Lower board a little mottled. Front free endpaper a little creased; scattered occasional foxing. Contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Detailed guide to the outdated Victorian practice of the capturing and keeping native British species of bird. Detailed instructions on their management and accommodation in aviaries and cages, including their habits, breeding, methods of capture, food, tricks they can be taught, and illnesses they might suffer. Scarce. £150.00