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

Small white call number on spine

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

folio (14 x 10

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

where he and Cautley excavated an enormous variety of now-extinct specimens

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