The Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of animals and plants / edited by Adam White ; and Robert M. Stark ; vol. I, lessons from the animal world--fourfooted animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, with 10 elementary plates of miscellaneous objects.
Alternate Title(s):
Instructive picture book
Published / Created:
Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas, 87 Princes Street ; 1857.London : Hamilton, Adams, & Co., Paternoster Row, 1857.
Physical Description:
18 p., xxx double leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsQH46 .I57 1857+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Continued by The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world by Charlotte Mary Yonge, even though this latter work does not specify that it is vol. II on the t.p. See Osborne Coll., II,843.Plates on double leaves, numbered I-XXX.Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, I, 215Gumuchian & cie. Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 5829British Museum. General catalogue of printed books, 256:538BAC: British Art Center copy bound in original printed boards. In case with: Instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world. Edinburgh, 1858.
Subject Terms:
Animals -- Juvenile literature. | Animals -- Pictorial works. | Natural history -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Edinburgh -- Imprints -- Specimens. | Edmonston & Douglas -- Publisher. | Hamilton, Adams, & Co. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Juvenile literature -- 1857. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1857.
Contributors:
White, Adam, 1817–1879. | Stark, Robert M. (Robert Mackenzie), 1815–1873. | Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901. Instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world. | Edmonston & Douglas, publisher. | Hamilton, Adams, & Co., publisher.