Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties.

GOSSE, Philip Henry.

Published by Van Voorst. London, 1860

About this Item

pp. xl, 362, (ii) Advertisement. 11 fine colour-printed plates and 1 plain plate by WILLIAM DICKES, numerous text woodcuts. Erratum slip to Part III. Original gilt decorated cloth, rear board blotched, lacking front free end-paper and half-title and attached frontispiece loose, all plate guards foxed offsetting to the opposing text leaves. *FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER #108 - first issued in 12 monthly parts, 1858 to 1860, this is the first, and only, book form edition. Four thousand copies were printed but it did not sell well; by the end of 1869, 2700 copies remained in stock. The fine coloured plates were printed from Gosse's own watercolours by one of the best colour-printers of the day.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties.
• Publisher: Van Voorst. London
• Publication Date: 1860
• Binding: Hardcover