Descriptive sociology
Subtitle: or, Groups of sociological facts
By: classified and arranged by Herbert Spencer ; compiled and abstracted by David Duncan ... Richard Scheppig ... and James Collier [and others]
Contributors: Duncan, David, 1839-1923.; Scheppig, Richard, 1845-1903.; Collier, James, b. 1846; Tedder, Henry Richard, 1850-1924 ed.; Werner, E. T. C. 1864-1954.; Torday, Emil, 1875-1931 comp.
Publisher: Williams and Norgate
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Social history.; Civilization.
Notes: Cover-title (only no. 9-10, 12 and 4 <1930 re-issue> have t.-p.)

"List [or 'Titles'] of the books from which extracts have been taken," in each part.

No. 3 [new edition] 1925, and no. 9-10 edited after the author's death by Henry R. Tedder, no. 11-13 issued by Mr. Spencer's trustees.

Parts 1-8 were issued also with the American imprint, New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1873-1881.

The parts are numbered consecutively in the order of publication: no. 1, 2, 3 [etc.] and (in part) also serially in three "divisions": Div. I, Uncivilized societies, pt. 1, [2, etc.]-A; Div. II. Civilized societies--extinct or decayed, part 1, [2, etc.]-B; Div. III. Civilized societies--recent or still flourishing, pt. 1, [2, etc.]-C.
Table of contents: title: 1. English / J. Collier; title: 2. Ancient Mexicans [etc.] / R. Scheppig; title: 3. Types and lowest races ... / D. Duncan; title: 4. African races / D. Duncan; also 1930 re-issue (entirely rewritten) / E. Torday; title: 5. Asiatic races / D. Duncan; title: 6. American races / D. Duncan; also 1885 (2nd ed.); title: 7. Hebrews and Phœnicians / R. Scheppig; title: 9. Chinese / E.C.T. Werner; ed. by H.R. Tedder.