[THOMSON, A. LANDSBOROUGH (ed.); THOMSON, J. ARTHUR (intro.); RANKIN, GEORGE (ill.)]. Britain's Birds and Their Nests. London: Published by W. & R. Chambers, 1910.
FIRST EDITION, leather-bound, hardcover, thick quarto (26cm x 19cm x 7cm), pp. xxvii, 340 + 132 colour plates. English text, the descriptions by A. Landsborough Thomson, with an introduction by J. Arthur Thomson. Bound in contemporary half leather with cloth sides, spine gilt ruled and tooled, top page edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers, 132 colour plates by George Rankin, rear index in double columns. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Light fading to spine. Interior very well-preserved. Inscriptions to front endpaper. An attractive copy.
