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Sketches and anecdotes of animal life / by J.G. Wood, author of the "Illustrated natural history," "Bees," etc., etc. ; with illustrations by Harrison Weir.

Accession number
PML 88922
Creator
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Published
London : George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate ; New York, 416, Broome Street, 1854.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Preface dated April 7, 1854.
Eight full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, all signed: H. Weir, and Dalziel sc.
"London: Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, Milford Lane, Strand."--colophon.
Sixten pages of publisher's advertisements at end of text.
Description
[6], 427, [1], 16 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 17 x 11 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial brown morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, signed HRW.
Classification
Department