Language: English
Published by James Shiells & Co, London, 1896
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. J. E. Sowerby (illustrator). 159pp. Bound in the publisher's decorated green cloth gilt with faded spine. Internally clean but lacking the front free end-paper and with a former owner's label to the front paste-down and the same owner's signature to the head of the front free end-paper. Tightly bound with (it is said) 104 coloured figures by Sowerby with the eighteen plates tissue protected. A later edition of a work originally published by W.H. Allen & Co.