Breeding British Birds in Cage and Aviary by R. B. Bennett - 1959

Cage Birds, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 136 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light marks to boards.

Cage Birds, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. First Edition. 136 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustration plates. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining.

Cage Birds, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. First Edition. 136 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black & white, colour illustrations and plates. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light sunning & crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.

No DJ. Dark red/brown cloth to boards , very good, free end papers tanned in part, see photo. Internally very good with illustrations within the text together with plates depicting native british birds, some in colour, others in greytone.