Half hours in the tiny world
Subtitle: wonders of insect life
By: with numerous illustrations.
Series: The half hour library of travel, nature and science for young readers
Publisher: Daldy, Isbister, & Co.
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Insects -- Juvenile literature; Corals -- Juvenile literature; Microorganisms -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Notes: Verso of title page: "London: Printed by Virtue and Co, Limited, City Road."

Final 36 pages are publisher's catalogues

"First published in 1875." -From shelf list card

Bound in brown cloth, stamped in black and gold.  Pictorial cover. Blind-stamped back cover.

King Collection copy has the stamp of Eugene V.P. Scallan on title page; bookplate pasted inside front cover from Scallan as well.  Also label of J. Cornish & Sons, booksellers in Dublin, pasted inside front cover.
Table of contents: value: About a caterpillar; value: The spider and its webs; value: Bees and beehives; value: Wasps and papermaking; value: Silk and silkworms; value: About flies; value: Ants and anthills; value: Ants and their organization; value: Life in a drop of water; value: Coral and coral builders; value: Nature and her tools; value: Nature, and what is small; value: Use of the eyes.