The New Naturalist; Sea-Birds, The Common Lands of England and Wales, Freshwater Fishes, British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails, The New Naturalist, Loch Lomondside, Dragonflies, Wildfowl

London : Collins , 1954-2009. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A stunning set of eight volumes of the charming New Naturalist Library collection. This is a collection of eight volumes from the Collins The New Naturalist Library series. This set includes: Sea Birds by James Fisher & R. M. Lockley, number 28 first published in 1954. With ten colour plates, five black and white plates are missing, from va-viii, sixty-three black and white plates. The Common Lands of England and Wales by L. Dudley Stamp & W. G. Hoskins, number 45 first published in 1963. With six plates in colour and black and white plates  ix, x, xia, xib, xiia, xiib are missing 27 photographs in black and white.Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles by P. S. Maitland & R. N. Campbell, number 75 first published in 1992. With twenty-one colour photographs and over 200 black and white photographs and diagrams. British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails by Eric Simms, number 78 first published in 1992. With four colour plates and over 200 black and white photographs and drawings. The New Naturalist by Peter Marren, number 82 published for a second time in 2005. With sixteen colour plates an dover 100 black and white photographs and drawings. Loch Lomondside by John Mitchell, number 88 first published in 2001. With eight colour plates and over 120 black and white photographs and line drawings. Dragonflies by Philip Corbet & Stephen Brooks, number 106, first published in 2008. With many colour photographs by Robert Thompson.Wildfowl by David Cabot, number 110, first published in 2009. With many colour photographs. Collated. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a few marks to the earlier editions. There are inscriptions to the front free endpapers of Seabirds and The Common Lands of England and Wales. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dustwrappers. Sea-birds dustwrapper is the most worn with some taping to the wraps and fading to the spine. The earlier dustwrappers have some signs of shelf wear and fading but are all generally very smart. Very Good Indeed