Birds in London

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1898. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Bryan Hook; A. D. McCormick; R. B. Lodge. A highly illustrated first edition of this work on the birds of London from Hudson. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, sixteen plates, and fifteen in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed study of the birds of London, considering them by species and then by geographical location. With chapters on crows, daw, rooks, and small birds, including a commentary on their movements and recent colonists to the area. Written by William Henry Hudson, an Anglo-Argentinian author, naturalist, and ornithologist who was a critic of Darwinism and instead advocated for Lamarckian evolution. Illustrated by Bryan Hook, an English artist, Arthur David McCormick, a British illustrator and painter, from photographs by Reginald Badham Lodge, an English ornithologist, photographer, and painter. This edition does not include advertisements or publisher's catalogue. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd handling mark. Good