Nests and eggs of familiar British birds
Subtitle: described and illustrated with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects, and their times and modes of building
By: by H. G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates of eggs, containing forty-eight different species.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893
Series: Young naturalist's library
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Birds -- Eggs -- Great Britain.; Birds -- Nests -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Nests & eggs of familiar British birds; Nests & eggs; Eggs of familiar British birds
Notes: Wood engraved plates are printed in grey with one or two colours and hand coloured.  All are unsigned.

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

Plates were also used in an 1855 and 1871 edition of this title published by Groombridge and Sons.  See McLean D 0009 and McLean D 0012.

Includes "Index.": p. [1] at end.

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

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett: engraver and colour printer, p. 89.

MASS copy 1: Bound in green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Covers blocked in blind with series title: "Young Naturalist's Library".  For later uses of this binding design, see McLean D 0009 and McLean D 0011.  With ownership label: "W. H. Mullens.".  Lacking front free endpaper.  All plates are bound at the beginning of the text.

MASS copy 2: Bound in half beige calf and marbled paper-covered boards; a.e. speckled red.  Edges of calf blocked in blind and spine blocked in gold. Dark maroon leather title label blocked in gold.