MEMOIRS OF AN ARTIST NATURALIST. George Edward Lodge Trust Edition.

(1946) 2013 new edition. 4to (180 x 260mm). Pp224. Colour and b/w plates by the author. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Edited by Brian Bird, this new edition of Lodge's 1946 work features "the complete original ...edition, a new biography written by Judith Magill, George Lodge's great niece, and an additional gallery of artwork. In this book of wide-ranging reminiscence one is given an insight into hawks and hawking, woodland and marsh birds, sea birds of Shetland and the birds of Scotland's moors. 224 pages, dust-wrapper, colour throughout, original Memoirs manuscript endpapers, a bibliography guide, many unpublished illustrations and photographs." "George Lodge wrote and illustrated his only book, Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist, at the age of eighty-five. The wealth of material within these pages resulted from a lifetime of 'finding out'. His writings ...acute observations and his artistic genius will enrich and enhance the wildlife artist, naturalist, ornithologist, falconer and all devotees of natural history." This new edition contains 224 pages, as against the 96 pages of the original. The quality of the plates in the original was variable and generally rather poor. For this new edition the publishers have, in many cases, gone back to the original artwork, so the quality of the images is very much improved.