The new and complete bird-fancyer : or bird-fancyer's recreation and delight. Containing the newest and very best instructions for catching, taking, feeding, rearing, &c. all the various sorts of song-birds, Particularly, Nightingales, Larks, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, Canary-Birds, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, &c. &c. Including, among other Particulars, A full Account of all their several Distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Likewise the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. Together with Many other useful Particulars relative to Singing Birds, too numerous to mention in a Title-Page. The whole revised, corrected, and improved, by Mr. William Thompson, Late Gardener to the Duke of Ancaster, and Author of New Gardeners Calendar; who has made the Management of Birds his favourite Study upwards of Twenty Years. Assisted by the most eminent Fancyers. Embellished with a beautiful frontispiece, elegantly designed and executed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, William, 1759-1811.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songbirds.

Aviculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi,[2],200[i.e.100]p.,plate )

Other Title:

New and complete bird-fancyer

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Alex. Hogg, at the Original King's-Arms, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row, [1783?]

Notes:

Dateable to between 1782 and 1784 on the evidence of the 'List of new publications, .. ' forming sig. [A4].

Page 100 misnumbered 200.

Pages 1-12 contain 'A new catalogue of valuable, useful, instructive, and entertaining books ... now publishing by Alex. Hogg'.

Price from imprint: price only one Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T107826.

OCLC:

642259378