Text set / [Notes on the care of birds and avian taxidermy]

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Title: [Notes on the care of birds and avian taxidermy]
Alternative Title: A Natural History of English Song-birds
Creator: Gowing, Judith
Albin, Eleazar
Date Created and/or Issued: 1802
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations by Judith Gowing in a copy of Eleazar Albin's Natural History of English Song-Birds (1779), mostly concerning the care of birds and best practices for avian taxidermy. Care instructions include feeding methods and medications.
Scope/Content: Ownership inscription of Judith Gowing, dated May 1802, on front free endpaper.
Type: text
Format: ink on paper
Form/Genre: Annotations--Great Britain--Nineteenth Century
marginalia (annotations)
Extent: [4], 107, [3] pages, bound : [24] leaves of plates ; 20 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1wc90
QL 673 .A3 1779 *
Language: English
eng
Subject: Songbirds--Collection and preservation--Great Britain--19th century
Aviculture--Great Britain--19th century
Place: England
52.16045, -0.70312
Relation: ESTC T62531
Location: CLUW

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