Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate Small white call number on

Small white call number on spine

The author was William Roscoe's daughter-in-law and was better known as a botanical artist under her maiden name Margaret Lace

the animal expert and director of the Skansen Aquarium founded by him in 1978

folio (14 x 10

This high quality facsimile reprint is very attractively bound in highly decorated tan morocco

Magpie and Bittern Eggs Hand Colored Plate Small white call number onHand colored lithographic plate, approximately 10. 25 inches wide by 14 inches long. From: Meyer, H. L., Illustrations of British Birds, lithographer H. L. Meyer. Image is taken from the Longman and Co. gilt edge folio edition of Meyer's Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs which was published 1835 1841, see W. G. Hale. Image is of an magpie egg and bittern egg. Publisher Longman and Co. Publisher Place London Date Published 1835