Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands
Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands

DIXON, Charles. Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands.

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DIXON, Charles. Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands. Chapman and Hall Ltd.1895.

8vo. Original green cloth, gilt lettering and vignette of bird to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, black stamped rules; pp. xvii + 468, 13 colour plates; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a little rubbed to extremities, title page a little foxed from old tissue guard, very good.
Second edition. Zimmer describes it as: "An account of the habits of British game birds, with notes on distribution, relationships and classification, and with synonymy and a paragraph of diagnostic characters of each species." Mullens & Swann describe the author complimentarily: "Mr Dixon wields a facile pen," and go on to describe him as "being the son of a landscape painter and engraver. He was for some years employed in travelling in search of ornithological information and specimens by the late Henry Seebohm when preparing his History of British Birds."
Nissen IVB 253; Zimmer pp. 173-4; Mullens & Swann pp. 168-9.

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