The Home Life Of Wild Birds: A New Method of the Study and Photography of Birds

Very good copy of the first printing from 1901. Includes 141 black-and-white photographs by the author. Brown cloth boards with gilt decorations. Bumped corners and some fraying at spine. Clean pages.

"The method of studying the habits of wild birds which this volume illustrates consists in bringing the birds to you and then camping beside them, in watching their behavior at arm's length and in recording with the camera their varied activities. By means of such a method one may live with the birds for days at a time, and watch the play of their most interesting habits and instincts. The actors are not confined in cages; they suffer indeed no restraint, excepting that only which their nature imposes. They come and go at will, and their life is as free and untrammeled as ever."