The Royal Natural History

London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co., 1893 – 96. Sic volumes, octavo, finely bound in uniform half crushed morocco over red buckram by Hatchards of Piccadilly, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered and ornamented in gilt, top edges gilt, light fading at fore edges, marbled endpapers, ribbon markers, light foxing to preliminaries and fore edges, over 3000 pages extensively illustrated with 72 chromolithograph illustrations and over 1600 black and white engravings.

A most handsomely bound set describing and illustrating several hundred species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates.