Wild scenes and song-birds

By

Webber, C.W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856

Webber, Charles Wilkins, Mrs., , ill
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 , ill
Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), , printer of plates

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, George P. Putnam & Co, 1854

Notes

"Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, N.Y., printed by Billin, Brothers"--Verso of t.p.

"This is probably the first edition of a collection of chapters on nature-study, most of them about birds. With the exception of some trivial changes in the title-page the 1858 edition ... is identical with the above."--Wood, p. 621.

Also issued by same publisher in same year with sub-title: "Illustrated with twenty-five colored lithographs, drawn by Mrs. C.W. Webber and Alfred J. Miller."

Chromolithographs signed: "L.N. Rosenthal's Cromo Lith. Philada."

Includes index.

Plates accompanied by guard tissue sheets.

Title and text within ruled border.

Wood in Vertebrate zoology cites "London" in the imprint.

Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, | p. 621

Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vogelbèucher, | 974

Subjects

Birds , Natural history , Outdoor books , United States

Call Number

QL676 .W37 1854

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.102341
OCLC: 708039643