The Illustrated Natural History. This item is unavailable.The Illustrated Natural History

Three volumes from Wood's Illustrated Natural History, observing birds, mammalia, reptiles, fish, and insects. Three volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and hundreds of in-text engravings. A popular and anecdotal study of natural history, arranged in three volumes to explore birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, molluscs, and insects. With more scientific portions found in the compendium of generic distinctions found at the end of each volume. Providing a systematic and accomplished study on the different species, habits, habitats, and life cycles of hundreds of different creatures. Offering plentiful references to the history of different species and comparisons of the characteristics of each genera. Written by Reverend John George Wood, an English writer who popularised natural history with his writings. He was well known as a parson-naturalist, giving up his curacy to write works about natural history. With illustrations from Wolf, Zwecker, Weir, Coleman, Wood, Neale, Harvey, and others. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, a prolific wood-engraving business in Victorian London, founded in 1839 by George Dalziel and his brother Edward Dalziel. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines with the odd mark to the cloth. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spines with large splits to the joints of Mammalia and Reptiles and Insects, resulting in minor fraying. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Minor age toning to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Good. …