Tales of animals.
Subtitle: Comprising quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects.
By: By Peter Parley ....
Contributors: Cumming, John, publisher.; Wakeman, W. F., publisher.; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876, printer.; Harvey, William, 1796-1866, ill.; Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800, wood-engraver.; Thomas and James Tegg; R. Griffin and Co,; Stillies and Brothers; Branston and Wright
Edition: Second edition, with numerous engravings on wood.
Publisher: Printed for T.T. and J. Tegg, 73, Cheapside: R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow; Stillies and Brothers, Edinburgh; John Cumming, and W. F. Wakeman, Dublin.
Published: 1833
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Zoology -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: "The publisher's advertisement to the English edition": p.[v]

"Preface to the American edition", typesigned "Peter Parley": p. [vii]-viii.

Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end.

Includes index.

Cf. Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, p. 540.

Cf. Gumuchian, 4505.

Some engravings signed, variously,: 'Branston & Wright Sc', 'TW','T Williams', 'William Harvey del.'.

'Chiswick Press, printed by C. Whittingham' - t.p. verso.

Wood engravings: frontispiece, title vignette, illustrations.

Frontispiece included in pagination.