'A very useful and well prepared systematic account'
WILKINSON, Edward Sheldon. Shanghai Birds. A Study of Bird Life in Shanghai and the Surrounding Districts. Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Limited, 1929.
8vo. Original light green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, above a design of a tree branch with birds blocked in black, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; pp. [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, verso blank, foreword, verso blank)], xxi, [1 (blank)], 243, [1 (blank)]; colour-printed frontispiece and 22 colour-printed ornithological plates after Henrik Grönvold, one half-tone plate and one diagram in the text; light marking to front board, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. 'A very useful and well prepared systematic account of local Chinese birds' (Wood), by E.S. Wilkinson, CBE (1883-1950). Wilkinson was a Chartered Accountant based in Shanghai and had been employed by the Shanghai Municipal Council Service, before becoming a senior partner of Thomson and Co. Chartered Accountants, Shanghai, and concurrently serving as Secretary of the Lester Trust. Wilkinson also wrote a 'Country Diary' for the North-China Daily News, and was also the author of Shanghai Country Walks (Shanghai: 1932) and The Shanghai Bird Year: a Calendar of Bird Life in the Country around Shanghai (Shanghai: 1935).
Nissen, IVB 989; Ripley and Scribner p. 311; Wood p. 628.
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