British birds' eggs and nests
Subtitle: popularly described
By: by Rev. J. C. Atkinson ... ; illustrated by W. S. Coleman.
Contributors: Coleman, W. S. 1829-1904; Dalziel Brothers.; Camden Press
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain.; Birds -- Eggs.; Birds -- Nests.; Yellowback books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: British birds' eggs & nests :; Birds' eggs & nests
Notes: Plate I is also included in pagination at the beginning.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-2] at end.

Includes "Appendix.": p. [117]-120 and "Index.": p. [121]-122.

Printed by the "Camden Press", a printing works established by the Dalziel Brothers in 1857.

Wood-engraved plates are the same as those printed in colours for another 1861 edition of this title published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge.  See McLean D 0031.  All plates are unsigned.

"Atkinson's Birds' Eggs and Nests.  A superior Edition of this Work, printed in the best manner, on a fine paper, with the Illustrations printed in Colours, and bound in Cloth, is to be obtained, price 3s. 6d., or with gilt edges, 4s."--T.p. verso.

"One shilling"--Cover.

MASS copy: Bound in yellow paper-covered boards printed in red, light green, dark green and black.  Upper cover printed with titling and a wood-engraved illustration of a bird in a nest signed "Dalziel Sc".  Lower cover printed in dark green with publisher's advertisement for "Lovell Reeve's Popular Natural Histories." and with imprint: "Camden Press, London.".  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements for "George Routledge and Sons".  With ownership inscription: "J. G. Baker".