on objects of the microscope
By: by the Rev. J. G. Wood ... ; with upwards of four hundred illustrations by Tuffen West.
Contributors: West, Tuffen.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Richard Clay (Firm)
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Microscopy -- Popular works.; Microscopes -- Popular works.; Yellowback books -- Specimens.
Genres: Popular works.; Specimens.
Other titles: Microscope
Notes: Date based on inscription in Massey Library copy and form of publisher's name and address.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso.

Wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.

Includes "Index." (p. [128]) and "Description of Plates." (p. [129]-132).

Wood-engraved illustrations and plates (printed in colour) are the same as those used in an edition of this title published in 1861 by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, and another edition published [between 1881 and 1887] by George Routledge and Sons.  Plates were printed in colour in these editions by Edmund Evans.  See McLean D 1225 and McLean D 1227.

Wood-engraved illustrations and plates (printed in purple-brown) are the same as those used in another yellowback edition published [between 1895 and 1896] by George Routledge and Sons, Limited.  See McLean D 1228.

The same wood-engraved plates were used (printed in purple-brown without colour) in another yellowback edition of this title, revised and rewritten by E. C. Bousfield, published [1897?] by George Routledge & Sons, Limited.  See McLean D 1229.

MASS copy: Bound in yellow paper-covered boards printed in black, green and red in the same design as McLean D 1228 and McLean D 1229.  Upper cover printed with titling and illustration similar to those within the text.  Upper cover includes price: "One Shilling" and statement: "A Companion to 'Common Objects of the Country.'".  Lower cover printed in black with general advertisement for "Bennett's Watches".  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.  With ownership inscription dated 1881: "J. W. Fry".  With bookplate: "Ex libris C. J. Peacock.".