The Handbook of British Birds, Complete in 5 Volumes by Witherby, H. F. ; Jourdain, F. C. ; Ticehurst, Norman; Tucker, Bernard - 1958

London: Witherby, 1958. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Complete set in 5 volumes. 8th printing of the First Edition, 1958. Hardcover, matching blue cloth, 8vo. Near Fine copies, no dust jackets. Minor rubbing to covers. Previous owner's small bookplate on each front fly leaf; also, the former owner has attached a table of contents for each volume on its front pastedown. Clean and unmarked contents. Strong bindings Illustrated. 5 volume set.

London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1948. (UK) 5th impression 1948. No markings, but a small patch of faint white residue to cover of Volume II, slight spine slant to volume V, otherwise Good to VG; lacking the dust jackets. Blue cloth with gold spine titles. Volume I: Crows to Firecrest, xl, 326pp, index, 32 colour plates; B&W illus in text. Volume II; Warblers to Owls, xiv, 352pp, index, colour plates 33 to 60, B&W illus and maps. Volume III; x, 387pp, index, colour plates 61 to 92, B&W illus and maps in text; Vollume IV, Cormorants to Crane, xiv, 461pp, index, colour plates 93 to 125, B&W illus and maps in text; Volume V: Terns to Game-Birds, xii, 381pp, index, colour plates 126 to 147, B&W illus and maps in text. scientific index volumes I-V. The Handbook of British Birds was a pioneering bird guide published in five volumes by H. F. & G. Witherby, first edition in 1941. It was itself a much enlarged and revised version of H.F. Witherby's Practical Handbook of British… Read More

H.F. & G. Witherby, 1946-1947. 1st edn 4th imp. 5 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue buckram cloth (a little rubbed at edges - otherwise VG), dustwrappers (small tears and creases at edges and partial loss at top corner of upper cover of vol III - in protective wrappers fused to covers, not price clipped). Pp. various, illus with coloured and b&w plates, diagrams and distribution maps (previous owner's card on front paste-down of vol I; no inscriptions).

Witherby,, 1938-1941. 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 147 coloured plates containing many hundreds of illustrations; original dark blue buckram, gilt backs, rose tops, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, very lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. 'Witherby' remained the standard reference for almost half a century. The work comprises Vol. I: Crows to Flycatchers (1938); Vol. II: Warblers to Owls (1938); Vol. III: Hawks to Ducks (1939); Vol. IV: Cormorants to Crane (1940); Vol. V: Terns to Game Birds, Additions, Corrections, Systematic List and Indices (1941). See Tate, p.44.