The Parlour Menagerie. Wherein are Exhibited in a Descriptive and Anecdotal Form, the Habits, Resources, and Mysterious Instincts of Animal Creation with Nearly Three Hundred Wood Engravings

Paternoster Row, London: John Hogg, Publisher, 1879. Stated Third Edition and MDCCCLXXIX, or 1879, at title page; no other dates. Handy 5 1/4" x 8" design. Dark blue cloth boards, ornate cover titles and design in gilt and black, moderate shelf wear, some spine rub. Detailed blind-stamp decorative borders and dentelle at back board. Pages generally good; few w/adhesive mending. Appears to have fresh thick endpapers and pastedowns at front and back. Features nearly three hundred charming wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, and others. Near half of these illustrations are neatly colored; appears to be antiquarian coloration by a budding artist. Also features decorative vignettes and ornamentation. A charming solid volume concerning the creation and panoply of life on earth. Several paragraphs for each animal feature intriguing and accessible traits and natures thereof. From title page: "Learn from the Bird what food the thickets yield; Learn from the Beasts the physic field; The art of building from the Bee receive; Learn of the Mole to plow - the Worm to weave. - Pope's Essay on Man." Ten pages of contents at front arranged in alphabetical order with pagination. Also, four pages with an alphabetized list for the illustrations. From list of illustrations page: "Note. - The sixty-six wood cuts in this book engraved by the celebrated Thomas Bewick are distinguished by an asterisk, thus." Four pages of adverts with summaries at back for available titles from John Hogg, Publisher. 520 pages. Insured post.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Bewick, Thomas; Reiveley, James; Harvey, William &c.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.