English country life
Subtitle: consisting of descriptions of rural habits, country scenery, and the seasons
By: by Thomas Miller ... ; with nearly three hundred illustrations, by Birket Foster, John Gilbert, William Harvey, etc.
Contributors: Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897.; Harvey, William, 1796-1866.; Evans, Edward, fl. 1838-1848.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906.; Godwin, James, d. 1876.; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872.; Jackson, John, 1801-1848.; Gray, Charles, engraver, d. 1847.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Harral, Horace.; Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800.; Landells, Ebenezer, 1808-1860.; Bastin, J. fl. 1840s.; Mason, Abraham John, 1794-1858; Smith, John Orrin, 1799-1843.; Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893.; Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Hulme, Frederick William, 1816-1884.; Dodgson, G. 1811-1880.; Sargent, G. F., fl. 1840-1860.; Temple, Nigel.; Dalziel Brothers.; Richard Clay (Firm); Bone & Son
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Country life -- England.; England -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: English country life :
Notes: Every second wood-engraved plate is included in pagination.  Plates are signed as engraved by "Dalziel", "Edward Evans" and "E. Evans" [i.e. Edmund Evans?] after H. Weir, B. Foster and James Godwin.

Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed as engraved by W. T. Green, Dalziel, J. Jackson, C. Gray, [J.] W. Whimper, H. Harral, Measom, T. Williams, Landells, Bastin, A. J. Mason, Orrin Smith [i.e. John Orrin Smith?], Bolton, E. Evans and W. Dickes.  Illustrators include B. Foster, John Gilbert, H. Weir, F. W. Hulme, G. Dodgson and G. F. Sargent.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and floral initials.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Covers with colour wood-engraved paper onlays depicting portraits of mythological figures.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With cream endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet Street,  London.".  With bookseller's embossed stamp: "Hale & Howarth  520 Ross St.  Manchester".  With presentation inscription dated 1865.  With ownership label: "NHLT" [i.e. Nigel Temple].