Glaucus
Subtitle: or, The wonders of the shore
By: by Charles Kingsley ...
Contributors: Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Richard Clay (Firm)
Edition: Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged; with coloured illustrations
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Marine animals -- Great Britain.; Seashore animals -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Wonders of the shore; Glaucus :
Notes: "The basis of this little book was an Article which appeared in the North British Review for November, 1854."--P. [7].

Plates are colour wood engravings produced using the "Baxter Process", with areas and lines that are printed with an intaglio metal plate.

All plates are with imprint: "W. Dickes.".  Three also include imprint: "G. B. Sowerby & C. K. del.".  All are with numbered title captions.

Colour plates are the same as those used in the "Fourth edition" of this title published in 1859 by Macmillan and Co.  See McLean D 0630.

Includes "Appendix.": p. [229]-245.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with the same illustration of the mythical figure Glaucus as used on the cover of McLean D 0630.  Spine with imprint: "Macmillan & Co.".  With brown painted endpapers. With presentation label to the Massey College Library by "Professor Desmond Neill Librarian 1977".