The Illustrated Book of Pigeons. With Standards for Judging. Ed. by Lewis Wright.

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

London: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co. n.d. (circa 1876). Thick 4to. Calf-backed with gilt-illustrated cloth with bevelled edges. Gilt. A.e.g. (viii 392 4pp.). Complete with 50 magnificently coloured full-page chromo-lithograph plates after J. W. Ludlow each with its orig. tissue-guard and numerous text-illusts. Some occasional foxing of the text; otherwise an excellent complete copy with the plates sharply coloured. NOTE: Probably the best known treatise on the breeding and rearing of pigeons.