NATURAL HISTORY FOR CHILDREN: Being a Familiar Account of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Fishes and Reptiles, Trees and Plants. With plates and numerous cuts.....Vol. V.
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1819. First edition. One of five volumes in the series, this one devoted to TREES and PLANTS and complete in itself. Of the few holdings we find in libraries, it is unclear that all possess all five volumes. This volume devoted to trees and flowers has an attractive engraved frontispiece of a woman in a garden showing a flower to a child, surrounded by various pots filled with flowers and various trees and shrubs in the background. Ref. 16805 12mo (13 x 8 cm); engraved frontispiece signed John Shury; 165 pp. with numerous wood-engraved illustrations as chapter headings + 3 pp. publishers ads.
Contemporary full calf; six gilt ruled compartments to spine, one with gilt lettered leather title piece; edges faintly sprinkled red; very slight cracking to joints, but firm; a bit of gentle rubbing to corners and spine ends; original endpapers with the booksellers label, Bettison’s Cheltenham, on front paste down ; signed “ Ellen Mary and Sarah Maria Seton Karr “ on flyleaf. A very nice copy.
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