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.; William Clowes (Firm)
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.
Published: 1881
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 taken from English Catalogue of Books and confirmed by form of printer's name.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982

Includes undated "Introduction.": p. [5]-6.

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

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

Colour plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Plate [1] includes 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.

Nature printed plates are the same as those used in the August 1865 issue of this title and the same (with some slight differences in colour and hand-colouring) as those used in the September 1865 issue.  See McLean D 0226 and McLean D 0227.

Nature printed plates [1], [3], [6] and [8-9] are the same (with some slight differences in colour and hand-colouring) as plates [2], [4-5], [1] and [3] used in an edition of this title published by Frederick Warne and Co. [between 1872 and 1877].  See McLean D 0228.

MASS copy 1: Bound in paper-covered boards.  Upper cover and spine covered with glazed paper chromolithographed with the titling and an illustration of a beach scene.  Illustration with signature: "Theo G" and imprint: "Printed in Holland".  Lower cover with beige paper printed in black with taxidermal advertisement.  Upper endpapers printed with general advertisements.  Both sides of lower free endpaper printed with publisher's advertisements.  Lower paste-down endpaper printed  with general advertisement.

MASS copy 2: Bound in glazed and beige paper covered boards in the same design and with the same chromolithographed illustration and printed advertisement as copy 1.  Upper and lower endpapers with the same general advertisements and publisher's advertisements as copy 1.  With later bookseller's label: "Iredale & Son,  Booksellers & Stationers,  18 The Strand, Torquay.".