Broderip, W.J. — Zoological Recreations

Ward, Lock & Tyler London vi, 382, col frontis, 15 plain plates, woodcuts to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. blue full calf, rebacked in blue buckram with orig. leather backstrip (rubbed, worn) laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title piece; marbled endpapers and edges, inner hinges neatly reinforced. Foxing to endpapers. Prize bookplate. Good.. Third edition, undated. Colour-printed frontispiece finished by hand. The author's 'Zoological Recreations' first appeared in the <i>New Monthly Magazine</i> and the collected contributions were subsequently published in several editions. Subjects covered range from birds, to domestic dogs and cats, to tropical birds, to dinosaurs and sea reptiles, etc. Freeman 498; Mullens & Swann p. 95..