Translation of selections from: "Histoire naturelle". Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.
All colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.
Pages [1]-252 are with the same setting of type as another edition of this title published in London [between 1883 and 1885] by Frederick Warne and Co. and printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Plates [3], [5], [7], [11] and [17] are also the same as those used in this edition. See McLean D 0139.

Includes "Description of Plates.": p. [1-2] at beginning.

MASS copy: Bound in light purple sand-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine title blocked in gold. All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements including one for "Warne's National Books" listing this title. With 6 x 9 cm. insert at beginning: "The Sixpenny Edition of this Work contains a selection of Two of these Plates, The Shilling Edition of this Work contains a selection of Twenty of these Plates. The Eighteenpenny Edition contains the whole Thirty-two Plates.".