Description:
Brattleboro, Vermont: Published by Geo. H. Salisbury, 1845. sextodecimo (6.5" x 4"), 324 pages, profusely illustrated from wood engravings. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.Binding rubbed & soiled, gilt dull, margins sunned, shallow losses at spine extremities, foxing & toning throughout (heavy at times), about good & still quite useful.
Illustrators include Thomas Brown, George Loring Brown, & John Downes.
"In the following pages no scientific arrangement has been pursued. It has been our object to collect a large number of interesting anecdotes and sketches of animals, rather than embarrass the young reader by scientific distinctions and details ..." ~Excerpted from the introduction.
