Historical information

A collection of birds and beasts at home fiction stories for young children. Clem Thiele presumably owned the book indicated by the stamps inside with his name.

Physical description

Children's hardcover collection of Birds and Beasts at Home stories by W. Gilhespy. The cover has a coloured picture of a squirrel sitting on a branch of a tree and a mother bird feeding her babies in a nest. The title is printed in blue. The spine has the title and an illustration of a dovecote, along with the publisher Nelson written below. A coloured plate is at the front and throughout there are black and white illustrations. A child has stamped birds and other pictures here and there.

Inscriptions & markings

Clem Thiele Doncaster is stamped four times on the endpaper at the front with stamps of a gentleman and his dog too.