Search Results: Authors starting with G from Speaking Volumes

Small 8vo (18cm) Frontispiece + title page + xx + 444 pp. Bound in green cloth, spine rebacked with original backstrip pasted back on, front board with gilt engraving, textblock gilt on all edges. Very small scuffs and marks to binding, previous owner's signature on inside of front board, frontispiece with small stains and a little edge loss, otherwise clean and bright internally.
John George Wood was a prolific and successful natural history writer and populariser, having given up his curacy to devote himself fully to compose multiple works on the subject. The present work went through multiple editions, this one is not specified, but dated 1866.

Large 8vo (26cm), Vol. 1 only, treating of African races. Rebacked in brown half calf with original red, blue and white marbled boards. Five imitation raised bands with gilt tooling and lettering to spine, boards have been reconsolidated around edges, still showing signs of heavy wear and usage. viii + 774pp, richly and graphically illustrated with engravings throughout the text, frontispiece also present. Interally good and generally clean and bright, with occasional stains not affecting the text. Marbled textblock edges lightly soiled and with a few small chips.
John George Wood was an English curate and natural history writer who helped promote the popular 19th-century appeal of his subject. The present work is a weighty, detailed and lavishly illustrated account of the lives and cultures of African human races unknown to most of Western society at the time. Despite being unscientific and controversial for its condescending depiction of uncivilised 'savage' human races, the work had important… Read More