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Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. New Impression. 411 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough-cut pages. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

6-5: Longman. Good. 1913. Hardback.

London Longmans, Green and Co. 1884. 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Hardback in illustrated light brown cloth covers with printed brown lettering to front and spine. Top edges gilt. Navy endpapers. In very good condition. Corners and edges lightly rubbed. Some white paint to leading edges. Owners bookplate and bookseller label to front endpaper. Endpapers darkened. Some light foxing spots and marks to pages otherwise a clean and tight copy. 310pp. 6 full page illustrations and 27 within text.

London: Longmans, Green & Co (The Silver Library) 1899 New Impression cr.8vo xi,411,40pp ill., 1899 NVG original burgundy cloth, gilt titles, moderate shelf wear, covers slightly flecked, slight lean, presentation bookplate inside front cover, a little light foxing to prelims, numerous woodcut illustrations.

Longmans, Green and Co., London. 1894. Longmans, Green and Co., London. 1894. New edition. Hardback NO DW. Maroon cloth boards with silver type to spine and upper. Illustrated and with black and white frontis and tissue guard. Slight foxing throughout. Spine faded and boards are marked and slightly frayed to corners, head and tail of spine and top edge of lower. Ownership inscription to half title page. A nice sound copy.

London: Loingsmans Green and Co., 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece +56 illustrations by W.F. Keyl, J.B. Zwecker & E. Smith. PRIZE BINDING full tan leather on 5 raised bands with black spine label gilt cover of the Technical Day School Birmingham and spine extra gilt to all comparments and gilt dentelles, blindtooled reverses. {edges rubbed/gilt sl.rubbed to spine] All edges marbled to match endpapers xii [includes half title,frontis. Titlepage with vignette,Preface, Contents and illustration list] +411pp Prize bookplate to pastedown awarded for mathematics to Arthur S. Walker. Some pale foxing but an entirely unmarked, clean tight copy of this well illustrated fine binding.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Longmans, Green, and Company. Very Good. 1882. Hardcover. Abridged from 'Homes without Hands.' "New edition." With designs by W. F. Keyl, J. B. Zwecker, and E. Smith. Small octavo, bound in olive tone leather, gilt lettering on spine, gilt borders and design, raised bands on spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, 411 pages. Book plate on front paste-down, light edge wear to leather binding, else very good. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Lee and Shepard. VG- (see notes). 1872. 1st US. hardcover. 12mo . 411pp . Foxing to insides of free end papers, P O nameplate. Hinges starting front and rear, but intact. Decorated green cloth. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. Popularizing the Study of Natural History WOOD, Rev. J.G. Strange Dwellings being a description of the habitations of animals abridged from 'Homes without hands'... with designs by W.F. Keyl, J.B. Zwecker, and E. Smith. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. First edition thus. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches: 183 x 121 mm.). xii, 411, [1] pp. Woodcut frontispiece, vignette title-page and over fifty wood engravings in the text. Bound by Rivingtons (stamp-signed on front blank) in contemporary full blue calf, covers with double gilt rules, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Homes without hands first appeared in 1865. The Rev. J.G. Wood's "single object throughout [his career was] to popularize the study of natural history by rendering it interesting and intelligible to non-scientific minds. In this he was thoroughly… Read More