Justice (Francis) Manuscript Volumes of British Birds after Nature, Sutton-Courtney, Berkshire, circa 1810/20; 2 quarto (approximately 30cm x 24cm) albums of blank paper with numerous mss. descriptions of species of birds; most pages of descriptions are facing a watercolour and pencil illustration of the subject; volume I, 25 colour and volume II 8 colour illustrations; with bookplate for Francis Justice to pastedown of volume 1

By descent through the Justice family who lived at The Abbey House, Sutton Courtney from 1549-1901. As was tradition for the family at that time, Francis Justice joined the Navy as a midshipman and first served on HMS Bellerophon.

Two similar volumes appear to have been acquired by Yale University in 1954 and are noted in the The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 29, No. 1 (July 1954), pp. 42-43 under
Ornithology. "Two bound volumes containing the manuscript of "English Birds after Nature, by Francis Justice, Sutton Courtney, Berks. Collected in the years 1785, 1786, 1787"