A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds (2 Volumes)

London: Edward Lloyd Limited, 1896-1897

8vo, xiv + 304pp + xiv + 316pp. Hardcover bindings, gilt lettering to spines, gilt tooling to spines and boards. With 24 fine full colour plates in vol. 1, and 24 in vol. 2, collated and complete. With various black and white illustrations throughout.

William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863 – 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist. In 1882 he became an Assistant at the Natural History Museum. He studied ichthyology under Albert C. L. G. Günther, and in 1885 he was put in temporary charge of the Ornithological Section under Richard Bowdler Sharpe's visit to India. He remained in that department, eventually becoming Curator of Birds from 1909 to 1918. He also succeeded Bowdler Sharpe as editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, a post he held from 1904 to 1914. Ogilvie-Grant made many collecting trips, especially to Socotra, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. (wikipedia.com)

Condition: Overall good-very good. Slight rubbing to boards, light shelfwear to tops and tails of spines. Slight wear to corners of boards. Browning to front and rear endpapers, minor closed tear to rear endpaper of vol. 1, small crease to rear endpaper of vol. 2. Overall texts, illustrations and plates are clean, and both volumes are well bound.