Animals
By: by the Rev. C.A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., author of "Botanical rambles," "Flowers of the field," &c
Contributors: Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, wood-engraver; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Series: Picture library, second series -- 5; Picture books for children
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, sold at the depositories, 77 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4 Royal Exchange, 48 Piccadilly, and by all booksellers
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Animals; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Pictures & stories of animals
Notes: "Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge."

Estimated date of publication based on inscription in LC copy. Also, SPCK imprint included 77 Great Queen Street until 1878 and 48 Piccadilly address began to appear in 1862. Cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, page 182.

In original publisher's binding: green cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper board, lower board stamped with SPCK monogram in blind.

Fourteen illustrations variously signed Whimper and J.W. Whimper (Josiah Wood Whymper), and unsigned.

LC copy is the gift of Martha W. Dorsey, Nov. 4, 1936.
Table of contents: title: The Esquimaux dog; title: The hippopotamus; title: The gull; title: The seal; title: The sheep; title: The goat; title: The nightingale; title: The crab; title: The cock; title: The hen; title: The lion; title: The dove; title: The ant-eater; title: The otter; title: The long-tailed tit.