Our native songsters
By: by Anne Pratt ...
Contributors: Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Curtis, S. fl. 1829-1864 (binder); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education.; Richard Clay (Firm)
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill.)
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Preliminary wood-engraved plate included in pagination.  Plate is unsigned.

"Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."--T.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  Some include areas printed in colour with metal.  Most are with title captions.

Colour plates were produced using the "Baxter Process" of colour wood engraving.  Cf. Docker, Alfred.  The colour prints of William Dickes.

One wood-engraved illustration within the text is signed: "J. W. Whimper" and another: "J. W. Whymper".

Colour plates (except preliminary plate) and illustrations within the text are the same as those used in an 1853 edition of this title published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.  See McLean D 0908.

Docker, Alfred.  The colour prints of William Dickes, 171.

MASS copy:  Bound in green pebble-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.  Blocking in blind on covers is the same as that used on McLean D 0908 and McLean D 0909.  With pale yellow endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "S. Curtis.  Binder.".  With two duplicate plates entitled: "Whinchat"; one of these is bound in place of missing plate entitled "Redbreast".