Popular History of Animals

Henry Scherren

Published by Cassell and Company, Limited [1896], London, 1896

About this Item

A very scarce work on natural history by Henry Scherren, with beautiful colour plates. The second edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and full page illustrations and twelve colour plates. Collated complete.This very scarce work of natural history was written by Henry Scherrren, an author and illustrator of natural history books. The work provides information on the animal kingdom in a clear and simple manner, with the intention of educating and engaging young people.Undated, dated by a copy held institutionally. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally smart with fading to the spine, rubbing to the extremities, closed tears to the head of the joints and minor marks to the boards. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown with offsetting to the endpapers and an ink inscription to the front. Front hinge tender after the frontispiece. Internally firmly bound with very lightly age toned pages with scattered spotting, heaviest to the front and rear and small tidemarks to the head of many of the pages. Good. Seller Inventory # 917Z40

Bibliographic Details

Title: Popular History of Animals

Publisher: Cassell and Company, Limited [1896], London

Publication Date: 1896

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Henry Scherren

Condition: Good

Book Type: book