Wonderful Animals: Working, Domestic and Wild: Their Structure, Habits, Homes and Uses

288pp, 32pp publisher's ads. Blue cloth-covered boards; illustrations and gilt titles on front and spine; numerous in-text woodcuts, chapter head and tail pieces and initial letters. 12mo. Sun-faded spine. Rubbed corners, joints and spine ends; cloth worn through. Significant wear to rear cover. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges tanned. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Victorian natural history book which looks at the varied characteristics of English animals and instincts both wild and tame. Eighty one wood engravings.