The Royal Natural History
Author:
LYDEKKER, RICHARD (Ed) & SCLATER, P. L. (Preface)
Title:
The Royal Natural History
Subtitle:
Illustrated with Seventy-two Coloured Plates and Sixteen Hundred Engravings
Publisher:
Frederick Warne & Co. 1894
Description:
12 volume set, a handsome set with lovely bindings, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black & gilt tooled decoration to front board & spine, a.e.g, yellow eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, about 300pp per volume, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, some bruising & light fraying to spine extrems, some rubbing to board edges & corners, some fraying to board corners, v light foxing & tanning to prelims including tissue gurd but not affecting frontis, f.e.p. of volume 1 nearly loose, 2cm chip from edge of f.e.p. of vol VII)
Keywords:
Richard Lydekker PL Sclater natural history animals biology ecology