Humming birds
By: described and illustrated by H.G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Hummingbirds.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Wood-engraved plates are the same as those used in an 1856 and 1862 edition of this title published by Groombridge and Sons.  See McLean D0005 and McLean D0006.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-12] at end.

Includes "My humming birds by C. W. Webber.": p. [109]-144.

Includes "Index of species figured and described in this volume.": p. [3-4] at beginning.

Wood engraved plates printed in black and grey.  All are unsigned and hand-coloured.  Small wood-engraved illustrations within the text are also unsigned.

Plates are printed by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett, 1988.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett: engraver and colour printer, p. 101.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown calico cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with miniature versions of illustrations replicated from the text.  With brown painted endpapers.  With ownership label: "David Carruthers,  Solicitor,  Kilmarnock.".  Plate IV bound upside down.