Tall 8vo. Nice original blue cloth with lettering and illustration on spine and front cover. Private name label on inside front cover. Nice bright binding. Inside the photogravure plates are browned around edges, a few other minor spots of foxing including on endpapers, but overall clean. Very good. 2 coloured plates by A. Thorburn, 4 photogravure plates, and illustrations from photographs. 274 pp. Chapters are: The Wood Home, a gift of god, the singers, Birds and their Voyages, The Gun, At the Estuary, the Angler, insect life, the green world, the natural man,