Green cloth binding with gilt title, toad and toadstool on front board. Black design edging.

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‘A GUIDE TO THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS’ Adapted to the requirements of the London University, Science and Art Department, and for use in Schools and Colleges With Accompanying Text containing arrangement and explanation, equivalent terms, glossary and classification Second edition (fifth thousand). Original cloth backed boards with a imprint of a toadstool on the front board. 49 pages of descriptive text accompanying the 24 colour plates, which show various aspects of dissection. A very clean example of a much under-rated book. Contents clean and tight. A near Fine copy. Subjects of the plates include yeast and bacteria, brown and green moulds, protococcus and chara, bracken fern, flowering plant, amoeba, blood corpuscles, vorticella, hydra, earthworm, fresh-water mussel, lobster, snail, and frog.