The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds

This is a comprehensive work on numerous types of birds, many not normally considered pets or cage-birds. Some also consider it a classic work on canaries. Each author contributed chapters in one of three sections: Blakston wrote about canaries; Swaysland, in his role as an “authority” on the subject, contributed the section on British cage-birds; and Wiener wrote the section on foreign birds. Blakston’s chapters on canaries include more detailed information on breeding, hatching and rearing, exhibiting, and diseases than the other two authors’ sections. There are many fine chromolithograph illustrations and numerous woodcuts and engravings. Though undated, this copy seems to be a printing subsequent to the first edition, published between 1877 and 1890.