A popular history of British seaweeds
Subtitle: comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algæ
By: by the Rev. D. Landsborough ...
Contributors: Brooks, Vincent.; Taylor, John Edward, fl. 1840-1855 (printer)
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Popular natural history -- [v. 8]
Publisher: Lovell Reeve
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Marine algae -- Great Britain; Algae -- Great Britain
Other titles: Popular history of British sea-weeds
Notes: Includes "Preface to the Second Edition.": p. [v]-viii.

Includes "Preface to the First Edition.", dated 1849: p. ix-xi.

Most lithographed plates and several chromolithographed plates are hand-coloured.  Several lithographed plates are printed in light yellow-brown.

Chromolithographed plates are with imprints: "Fitch, lith." and "Vincent Brooks Imp.".

One lithographed plate is with imprint: "V. Brooks".  Two are with imprints: "Fitch lith." and "R. B. & R. imp.".  Several are with imprints: "W. Fitch, del." and "Vincent Brooks lith." or "Fitch lith." and "V. Brooks Imp.".

Includes "Glossary.": p. 383-392 and "Aphabetical List of Species.": p. 393-400.

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

MASS copy: Bound in blue bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.