Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Ltd. No date (1910), red cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 340 pages plus 132 drawings in colour by George Rankin. Cover stained and slightly grubby, spine sunned, wear to extremities, corners bumped. Moderate foxing throughout but generally not affecting plates. Spine cracked. Binding remains intact but for plates 44, 46 and 58, which are detached and edge-worn. Contents o/w clean and unmarked. Heavy book (2.3 kg) - UK and Overseas orders will require additional postage. . Good-. Hardcover.

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Bookseller: Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 112798
Title: Britain's Birds and Their Nests
Author: Landsborough Thomson, J
Illustrator: Ranking, George
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good-
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers Ltd
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Size: 260mm x 185mm.
Keywords: natural history birds Great Britain ornithology; Unit Fifteen

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O/W: An abbreviation for otherwise
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...