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Limited De Luxe Edition of which 1,000 copies have been Printed. This is Number 'Gift Copy' written in ink, Signed in ink to the front Limitation leaf by author, Francis Kortright and illustrater, Shortt and inscribed in ink to 'A.G. Wooley/With the compliments of/the Author/Feb 4/1943' and beneath inscribed in pencil 'For Tommy Johnstone from Peter Scott' (signed). 8vo. (227x158mm), pp: [i-iv],v-viii+1-476, half title, 36 coloured plates, text maps, folding pedigeree, endpapers browned, inner hinge split, in publisher's full green morocco, gilt with gilt ducks to front board, worn & edges rubbed, however sound, tight & very good. Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC & Bar, FRS, FZS (14 September 1909 - 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the 'World Wide Fund for Nature', the logo of which he designed. Thomas Sidney Johnstone known affectionately as Tommy Johnstone, son of Dr. Johnstone of Peterborough, married Miss Diana Marie Baillie in Belfast early February 1944 & honeymooned in Dublin at the Gresham Hotel. He had served in the Ambulance Service in Northern Ireland where Diana was serving in the WRNS. On being demobbed & not having the funds to persue medicine, he saw an article in Country Life and wrote to Peter Scott asking if there was any chance of making a living with birds? He, Diana and recently arrived Carol went down to Slimbridge and he became Assistant Curator of the Wildfowl Trust and soon the Curator, staying for nearly 30 years. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1926
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