Title from half-title (wanting in this copy; replaced by ms. t.p.).

Running titles: Palaeontology of Illinois. Fossil plants.

Plates signed: Leo Lesquereux del., A.H. Worthen direxit; Western Engraving Co., Chicago.

Excerpted from: Geological Survey of Illinois, v. 4, Geology and palaeontology, pt. 2, sect. 2, Palaeontology of Illinois.

Plates accompanied by tissue guard sheets with letter-press captions, not counted in pagination statement.

Errata: p. V (2nd group).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ms. note on front free endpaper: L. Lesquereux, Columbus, O., bound May 1871.

The author has provided extensive marginalia in pencil and manuscript annotations in ink on approximately 322 interleaved pages of blue paper, keyed to the corresponding page number in the report.

Stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, with accession no. in ink: 266959.

Bookplate: Library of R.D. Lacoe. For the promotion of research in paleobotany and paleozoölogy. Return to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Bound in black half-leather over embossed cloth, with binder's title: Illinois coal plants.