Oxford Book of Birds by Campbell, Bruce Watson, D

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint* Date of Publication: 1985 * Publisher: Peerage Books.* Binding and cover condition: Turquoise cloth. Gilt title to spine and design to face. Light bumps to corners, slight sunning to top and bottom edges. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustration to front cover NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £6.95. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Some impression marks to front of jacket. GD+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, Gift inscription to fep. no marks to text, nice clean copy. VG* Illustrations: Colour illustrations throughout BY Donald Watson.* Pages: 203 pp. text. iii pp. Bibliography & Index at rear.* Description: Originally published as The Oxford Book of Birds, and through 96 coloured plates and accompanying text covers all the birds which have ever been recorded in Britain, up to 1971. Any bird that is seen at all regularly in any part of the British Isles is illustrated in full colour, together with several which are very rare. At the beginning of the book are notes on classification and at the end are sections on special points of interest such as, Flight, Anatomy, Behaviour and Breeding, and Migration.* A NEAR VG copy with some wear reducing it to GD+.*