ARTHUR G. BUTLER

BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS,

6 volumes, 24 chromolithographic plates, with tissue guards, numerous monochrome illustrations, illustrated by F. W. Frohawk, some spotting, offsetting from tissue guards, a.e.g., publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, some splitting to spine extremities and surface marking, 4to, Brumby & Clarke, [1896 - 98]

Butler's work is widely recognised by ornithologists and natural historians as a foundation text for the study of British birds and their eggs. Butler also contributed to the work of the British Museum in their taxonomy of birds, insects and spiders.