Edward Rodd and James Edmund Harting |The Birds of Cornwall, 1880, annotated and with extra material inserted

The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

Harting, James Edmund, editor—Rodd, Edward Hearle

The birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands. London: Trübner & Co., 1880

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 135mm.), frontispiece portrait, folding map, numerous editorial annotations, numerous cuttings, letters (including from author to editor), photographs and pieces of ephemera bound in, pasted in, or loosely inserted, original pictorial cloth, binding slightly rubbed

The first dedicated avifauna of Cornwall. The editor’s own copy, with a wealth of extra material.

PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, bookplate