1st Edition. 194pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Signed by the author, Peter Tate, on the title page. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, lightly bumped at extreme edges, very slightly shelf worn.
Moving from medieval church records to the present day Tate maps the history of ornithology and its expression through literature, showing how the role of the ornithologist has changed and how the discipline has been influenced by great naturalists like Linne, Gilbert White and Charles Darwin.
