The Birds of the British Islands. 5 vols. Complete.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London 1906-1911. Folio. Or.buckram (covers flecked; spine faded). With 2 fold. col. maps a double-page diagr. and 318 full-page engrv. plates by Lilian M. Medland each with a captioned tissue-guard. Title-pages in red/black ink and in cludes a 10pp. list of subscribers. Important. NOTE: What is of particular significance is the illustrator. Lilian Medland went on to marry Tom Iredale the distinguished Australian ornithologist and did extensive work on numerous Australian/New Guinea Species of birds; purported to have worked closely with G.M. Mathews on his monumental work "The Birds of Australia" and an unpublished series pertaining to Australian Kookaburras. Lilian Medland