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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts. A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners.
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Title: How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and Other Woodcuts. A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners.
Author: Robert Williams Wood
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
Published: 1942
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 21st edition
Number of Pages: 49
Catalogs: Humor, Poetry, Nature
Description: Illustrated. 21st edition, originally published in 1917. Original red paper boards with cream lettering and decoration, with cream cloth spine. Some staining to cloth and boards, pencil-marks on front board and rear pastedown, crayon marks and staining on interior pages. This is a book of humorous, satirical verse and illustrations contrasting birds and flowers, animals with other animals, and more. Poems include: the Crow and the Crocus, the Puss and the Octo-Puss, the Puffin and Nuffin, the Clover and the Plover, the Pecan and the Toucan, the Cat-bird and the Catnip, the Quail and the Kale, the Gnu and the Newt, and many more. The book was an outgrowth of the "nature faker" controversy of the early 20th century, in which literary-, environmental-, and political figures weighed in on the veracity of the claims of certain nature writers, including William J. Long, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Jack London. Even Theodore Roosevelt weighed in on the controversy while president. Wood's book notes in the introductory verse that he has "freely drawn upon/ The works of Gray and Audubon, /Avoiding though the frequent blunders/ Of those who study nature's wonders." Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955) was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 49 pages plus introduction, 12mo.
Author: Robert Williams Wood
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
Published: 1942
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 21st edition
Number of Pages: 49
Catalogs: Humor, Poetry, Nature
Description: Illustrated. 21st edition, originally published in 1917. Original red paper boards with cream lettering and decoration, with cream cloth spine. Some staining to cloth and boards, pencil-marks on front board and rear pastedown, crayon marks and staining on interior pages. This is a book of humorous, satirical verse and illustrations contrasting birds and flowers, animals with other animals, and more. Poems include: the Crow and the Crocus, the Puss and the Octo-Puss, the Puffin and Nuffin, the Clover and the Plover, the Pecan and the Toucan, the Cat-bird and the Catnip, the Quail and the Kale, the Gnu and the Newt, and many more. The book was an outgrowth of the "nature faker" controversy of the early 20th century, in which literary-, environmental-, and political figures weighed in on the veracity of the claims of certain nature writers, including William J. Long, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Jack London. Even Theodore Roosevelt weighed in on the controversy while president. Wood's book notes in the introductory verse that he has "freely drawn upon/ The works of Gray and Audubon, /Avoiding though the frequent blunders/ Of those who study nature's wonders." Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955) was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. He pioneered infrared and ultraviolet photography. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 49 pages plus introduction, 12mo.
