Familiar Wild Birds. [ORIGINAL BINDINGS]. WALTER SWAYSLAND. Published by London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883.

Four volumes. 160; 160; 160; 176 printed pages.  A total of 160 beautiful chromolithograph prints by Archibald Thorburn and by Eliza Turck, mostly with the original translucent tissue guards and with the plates depicting the respective eggs to each volume, as described by Richard Kearton. Written to encourage the identification of common birds. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirty-nine colour plates. Collated complete. Complete First, Second, Third and Fourth Series.  All four volumes with identical contemporary owner's initials on the preliminaries. 140 x 195 mm. Original publisher's green cloth, bevelled boards, gilt titling and embossed decoration with transfer print of a different bird on the front cover of each volume. Slightly rubbed, spines a trifle worn at the heads and tails.  Inner hinges slightly weak and split but still holding firm. Eliza Turck (1832–1891) was a notable woman illustrator and watercolourist in the field of nineteenth century Natural History.