common seaweeds of the British coast and Channel Islands
Subtitle: with some insight into the microscopic beauties of their structure and fructification
By: by Louisa Lane Clarke ... ; with tinted plates.
Contributors: Bradbury & Evans.; Camden Press
Series: Household books
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Yellowback books -- Specimens; Marine algae -- Great Britain; Marine algae -- Channel Islands
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Common sea-weeds; Common seaweeds
Notes: Date based on form of publisher's name.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV.

Includes "Introduction." dated 1865: p. [5]-6.

At head of cover title: "Household books. Country & sea-side library.".

Includes "Index.": p. [139]-140.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

Colour plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Plates [1-2] include some hand-colouring.

Plates were possibly printed by Bradbury and Evans. The process of nature printing was patented by Bradbury and Evans in 1853.  Cf. Wakeman, Geoffrey.  Bradbury & Evans colour printers, 1984.

First edition was issued August 5, 1865.  Also issued in cloth by Frederick Warne and Co. around September 23, 1865.  Reissued in 1881.  Cf. Topp, p. 2.

With the same setting of type as the August and September 1865 issues of this title.  Nature printed plates [1-5] are also the same (with some differences in colour and hand-colouring) as plates [7], [1], [4], [2] and [5] in the August 1865 issue and plates [1], [3-4] and [6-7] in the September 1865 issue.  See McLean D 0226 and McLean D 0227.

Nature printed plates [2], [4-5], [1] and [3] are the same (with some slight differences in colour and hand-colouring) as plates [1], [3], [6] and [8-9] used in an [1881] edition of this title published by Frederick Warne and Co.  See McLean D 0229.

"One shilling"--Cover.

MASS copy: Bound in blue paper-covered boards printed with the same design as that used on McLean D 0226.  Wood-engraved on the upper cover in red, green and black with the titling and illustration similar to those within the text.  Lower cover printed in black with publisher's advertisements. All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.  Upper cover with ownership inscription: "[R. Hamelle?]".