Description
Magnificent book written by Robert Fulton and edited by Lewis Wright – circa 1880. This is a LARGE and HEAVY book containing 50 life-like coloured plates contained in xx chapters.
Both Author and Editor have done their best, honestly and heartily, to provide a full and trustworthy treatise for the Pigeon Fancier. The one has desired and endeavored to tell all he knows of the subject in its various branches, and the other has done his best to present that knowledge in the most effective form possible under the circumstances
Original publisher’s cloth decoratively titled and stamped in gilt and black with GREEN boards, beveled edges; lower board blind stamped. 50 life-like coloured plates from paintings by F. W. Ludlow.
Truly a collector’s edition would be an asset to every book collector!
Product details:
- Condition: Used – Very Good Condition. Rubbed leather spines, minor worn corners, pencil marks on a few of the first pages dating the book,list of illustrations – pencil mark checks beside each of the color plate names
- Hardcover: 392 pages – green boards with black and gilted along with gilted edges on the pages
- Publisher: Cassell Petter & Galpin (c1880)
- Language: English
- Illustrations: 50 colour plates and hand illustrations
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- Product Dimensions: 27 x 22 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 Kg
Chapters:
1. The Pigeon Fancy
2. Historical and Literary
3. The Pigeon Loft
4. Feeding and General Management of Pigeons
5. Breeding and Exhibiting
6. The Carrier
7. The Pouter
8. Foreign and Pigmy Pouters
9. The Almond Tumbler and its Sub-varieties
10. Mottled and Whole-feathered Tumblers
11. Baldheads and Beards. Exhibiting Short-faces
12. Common and Flying Tumblers
13. The Dragoon
14. The Barb
15. The Jacobin
16. The Exhibition Antwerp
17. Homing Pigeons
18. The Turbit
19. The Owl
20. Oriental Frilled Pigeons
21. Damascenes and Capuchin
22. The Fantail
23. The Trumpeter
24. Swifts, Lahores, Burbese, Scandaroons
25. German Toys
26. The Magpie
27. The Nun
28. The Archangel
29. The Runt
30. Pigeons as Food
31. Diseases of Pigeons
Appendix: Metropolitan Pigeon Societies and their History
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