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Bible animals : being a description of every leving creature mentioned in the scriptures from the ape to the coral / by J.G. Wood, author of "Homes without hands," "Common objects of the sea-shore and country," etc. ; with one hundred new designs by W.F. Keyl, T.W. Wood, and E.A. Smith ; engraved by G. Pearson.

Accession number
PML 88939
Creator
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889.
Published
New York : Charles Scribner and Company, 1870.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Twenty-two full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, and numerous engraved vignettes, variously signed: F.W. Keyl or FWK, T.W. Wood or TWW, E. Smith or ES, C.P.N. Cholls sc., and Pearson sc.
"Alvord Printer N.Y."--verso of t.p.
"T.J. Mumford"--signature in pencil on p. [1]
Laid in a carte de visite of Mrs. S. Morris Cochrane with pencil note: Rev'd Mr. Mumford, Dorchester.
Description
[4], xxix, [3], 652, [2] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 23,5 x 17 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's brown morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind, with grayish green endpapers.
Classification
Department