first edition Cloth
1912 · Boston
by FORBUSH, Edward Howe
Boston: Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. W.E. BEECROFT and Edward Howe FORBUSH. First edition. 8vo; xvi [ii], 622pp; forest green ribbed cloth over board with blind-stamped border, gilt-stamped spine; 37 b&w half-tone photographic plates including frontispiece and b&w wood-engraved illustrations in text; scuffing to boards, bumping to corners with loss, paper on front hinge cracked but holding tight, early paper repair to table of contents page in bottom margin; very good. Detailed look at the birds of Massachusetts dating back to colonial times. (Inventory #: 543)