A History of British Fishes, in two volumes (second edition) England Date Published 1876-1885 Date

England Date Published 1876-1885 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Very good Condition Description Just of touch of foxing to the top or bottom margin of six color plates only (plates 6

The birds were divided into 12 classes for publication

The book is based on the entire body of published morphological and taxonomic information as well as on the author’s own observations of over 800 collections

on the facing endpaper is the small book plate of Canadian ornithologist David Lank

Elof Axel Carlson

A History of British Fishes, in two volumes (second edition) England Date Published 1876-1885 DatePp. xlviii, (i); 464; pp. (iv), 628; with 500 wood engravings. Contemporary one half brown calf leather over the original publishers gray boards, spine with five raised bands with red morocco title label lettered in gilt in one compartment, the volume number is gilt stamped in another compartment, the remaining four compartments are decorated in blind in floral designs, speckled page edges, 8vo. A very important work by William Yarrell on the natural