Buffon's natural history
Subtitle: modernized from the most recent authorities : with original illustrations by Keyl printed in colours.
Contributors: Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871.; Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Series: Warne's national books
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.
Published: 1883
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Yellowback books -- Specimens.; Natural history.; Animals.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Buffon's natural history :
Work titles: Histoire naturelle.
Notes: Date based on form of printer's name and publisher's imprint and address.  Cf. Schenck, David H. J.  Directory of the lithographic printers of Scotland, 1999.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999

Translation of selections from: "Histoire naturelle".  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.
All colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.
Pages [1]-252 are with the same setting of type as an 1869 edition of this title published in London by Frederick Warne and Co. and in New York by Scribner, Welford, and Co., and printed by Woodfall and Kinder.  Plates [2-3], [5-6] and [8] are also the same as those used in this edition. See McLean D 0138.

Part of the publisher's series "Warne's national books".  Cf. McLean D 0138.

MASS copy: Bound in beige glazed paper-covered boards printed in red, yellow, green and black with the title and wood-engraved illustrations similar to those within the text.  Spine with imprint: "[F.] Warne & [Co.]".  With presentation inscription dated 1888.  With bookseller's label: "H. H. G. Grattan, Discount Bookseller.  The Tabard Book Store  16, The Borough.  London Bridge.".