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The illustrated book of pigeons : with standards for judging / by Robert Fulton ; edited by Lewis Wright ... ; illustrated with fifty life-like coloured plates, from paintings by J.W. Ludlow.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1890 Fulton
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fulton, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pigeons.
- Genre:
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1885.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1885.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 392 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Cassell & Company, [1890?]
- Contents:
- The pigeon fancy
- Historical and literary
- The pigeon loft
- Feeding and general management of pigeons
- Breeding and exhibiting
- The carrier
- The pouter
- Foreign and pigmy pouters
- The almond tumbler and its sub-varieties
- Mottled and whole-feathered tumblers
- Baldheads and beards, exhibiting short-faces
- Common and flying tumblers
- The dragoon
- The barb
- The jacobin
- The exhibition Antwerp
- Homing pigeons
- The turbit
- The owl
- Oriental frilled pigeons
- Damascenes and capuchins
- The fantail
- The trumpeteer
- Swifts, lahores, burmese, scandaroons
- German toys
- The magpie
- The nun
- The archangel
- The runt
- Pigeons as food
- Diseases of pigeons
- Appendix: metropolitan pigeon societies and their history.
- Notes:
- Previously published in 1876.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in blue cloth with text, border, and images of birds stamped in black and gold on front cover and spine.
- Athenaeum copy: T.P. Chandler library.
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on inside of front cover: "T. P. Chandler. Sep. 4th 1895. From Sophia."
- OCLC:
- 8139176
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