Beautiful shells
Subtitle: their nature, structure, & uses familiarly explained with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species
By: by H. G. Adams ... ; illustrated.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893; Simson and Co.
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Shells.
Notes: Date assumed from English Catalogue of Books and existence of an edition of the same title dated 1871.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

All wood-engraved plates and illustrations within the text are unsigned.

Plates are printed in brown with one or two colours and include hand-colouring.

Most wood-engraved illustrations, and all of the plates, with some differences in colouring, are the same as those used in an 1855 edition of this title published by Groombridge and Sons.  See McLean D 0010.

Colour wood-engraved plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett : engraver and colour printer, 1988.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett : engraver and colour printer, p. 92.

MASS copy: Bound in red calico cloth blocked in gold, black and blind; a.e.g. Upper cover and spine blocked in gold and black with the title and illustrations similar to those within the text.  Spine with imprint: "Groombridge". Front paste-down endpaper with the remains of a large [prize?] label.