A History of British Fishes, in two volumes (second edition) Publisher U

Publisher U

Elof Axel Carlson

From: Gray

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

the fine binding

A History of British Fishes, in two volumes (second edition) Publisher UPp. 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