Chamber birds
Subtitle: their natural history, management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them
By: by J. M. Bechstein ... ; translated from the last German edition, by W. E. Shuckard ... ; to which are added, observations compiled from the works of British naturalists.
Contributors: Shuckard, William Edward, 1802-1868; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Lovesy, J.; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.
Publisher: Wm. S. Orr and Co.
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Cage birds
Other titles: Bechstein's Chamber birds
Notes: Printer's device on t.p. verso.

T.p. and text printed within thin black double rule border.

Added col. wood-engraved ill. t.p. includes hand-colouring.

Colour wood-engraved plate and most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned. Some are signed: "H. Vizetelly" and "B. Foster".

Includes "Index.": p. [391]-394.

MASS copy 1: Bound in pale blue morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper cover blocked in gold and lower cover blocked in blind with illustration similar to those within the text.  Upper paste-down endpaper with ink stamp: "Lovesy  Cheltenham.".  With ownership label: "Ruari McLean".

MASS copy 2: Bound in pale blue morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind with the same design as copy 1; a.e.g.  With ownership label: "William James Steward.".  With presentation inscription dated 1847.  With ownership inscription dated 1888: "V. M. Holt Beevor".