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The complete bird-fancyer, or bird-fancyer's recreation. Containing The very best instructions for taking, catching, feeding, breeding, and rearing, All Sorts of Song-Birds; particularly, Canary-Birds, Nightingales, Larks, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, &c. Together with an account of all their distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Also the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. By George Wright, who has made the rearing Birds his Diversion near Twenty Years. The Lovers of Harmony reading this Book, May the Moments of Pleasure prolong, For here we are taught by the Feather and Look, To judge of the Bird and the Song.

Title
The complete bird-fancyer, [electronic resource] : or bird-fancyer's recreation. Containing The very best instructions for taking, catching, feeding, breeding, and rearing, All Sorts of Song-Birds; particularly, Canary-Birds, Nightingales, Larks, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, &c. Together with an account of all their distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Also the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. By George Wright, who has made the rearing Birds his Diversion near Twenty Years. The Lovers of Harmony reading this Book, May the Moments of Pleasure prolong, For here we are taught by the Feather and Look, To judge of the Bird and the Song.
Author
Wright, George, bird-fancier.
Publication
London : printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head in Pater-Noster-Row, [1795?]

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Description
95,[1]p.,plate; 12⁰.
Subject
Songbirds > Early works to 1800
Note
  • Braces in imprint.
  • Price from imprint: price One Shilling.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642439923
  • ECCO1-T145257
Author
Wright, George, bird-fancier.
Title
The complete bird-fancyer, [electronic resource] : or bird-fancyer's recreation. Containing The very best instructions for taking, catching, feeding, breeding, and rearing, All Sorts of Song-Birds; particularly, Canary-Birds, Nightingales, Larks, Black-Birds, Thrushes, Sterlings, Linnets, Goldfinches, Bullfinches, Robins, &c. Together with an account of all their distempers, and the best Methods of curing them. Also the surest Means of distinguishing the Cock from the Hen, and of learning them to sing to the greatest Perfection. By George Wright, who has made the rearing Birds his Diversion near Twenty Years. The Lovers of Harmony reading this Book, May the Moments of Pleasure prolong, For here we are taught by the Feather and Look, To judge of the Bird and the Song.
Imprint
London : printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head in Pater-Noster-Row, [1795?]
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T145257.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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