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been added to previous editions, and the date, from the type, 

 appears to be 1810-20. While No. 6 was printed by Rider 

 and Weed, this edition was by Weed and Rider. 



(8.) "THE NEW AND COMPLETE PIGEON-FANCIER; OR, 

 MODERN TREATISE ON DOMESTIC PIGEONS. By Daniel 

 Girton, Esq., of the County of Bucks. A New Edition, Re- 

 vised and Improved by Mr. "W". Thompson. London : Printed 

 for T. Kelly, 17, Paternoster-Bow. Price only One Shilling." 



This edition was printed at Maidstone, by W. Hill, printer, 

 Bank Street, and has the folding plate of twelve pigeons, 

 which had been re-touched; and it has a second plate of 

 "Improved Pigeon-Houses and Nest Apparatus, by Dr. Dick- 

 son, copied by permission from his ' Live Stock and Cattle 

 Management,' " a work first published in 1805. It contains 

 title-page ; preface, one leaf (iii., iv.) ; contents (v., vi.) ; pages 

 1-60, and is a reprint of No. 7, apparently printed about 

 1820-30. 



(9.) "THE NEW AND COMPLETE PIGEON-FANCIER; OR, 

 MODERN TREATISE ON DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Printed and 

 Published by J. Bailey, 188, Fleet Street." The probable date 

 of this might be found from an old London Directory. A 

 publisher of same name issued "The Young Sportsman's 

 Pocket Companion," from 116, Chancery Lane. 



(10.) "THE PIGEON-FANCIER, London: Printed and Pub- 

 lished by W. Mason, 21, Clerkenwell Green." Plate of six 

 pigeons, copied from Girton. This is Girton cut down to 

 thirty-six pages. About 1820. 



(11.) "THE COMPLETE PIGEON-FANCIER. London: Orlando 

 Hodgson, Cloth Fair." Coloured plate of six pigeons, copied 

 from Girton; twenty-four pages small type. An exact reprint 

 of- No. 10. One of a series of sixpenny pamphlets, green paper 

 cover. About 1830. 



(12.) " THE PIGEON AND BIRD-FANCIER. Derby : Published 

 by Thomas Richardson. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London ; 

 S. Horsey, Portsea." Twenty-four pages small type, half on 



