history of the birds of Europe
Subtitle: not observed in the British Isles
By: by Charles Robert Bree.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893 (printer)
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works; Birds -- Europe
Notes: Plates, engraved by Benjamin Fawcett, are printed by him in up to 3 colours, with additional hand-colouring.

First issued 1859-1863.

With errata for all 4 volumes printed at the end of vol. 4.

Includes bibliographical references (v. 4, p. [245]-248) and index.

MASS copy: With 1 plate and 1 p. of text from vol. 1 bound at the end of vol. 2. Volumes dated on t.p. 1863 (v.1), 1860 (v.2), 1862 (v.3), 1863 (v.4). With errata slip bound in at end of vol. 3.

MASS copy: Ex-libris John Hancock, with his signature, dated Dec. 1863 in all volumes. With the bookplate of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bound in pink ribbed morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, with printed advertisements for Groombridge on endpapers.