Comm 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.; Woodfall and Kinder
Publisher: George Routledge  and Sons
Published: 1895
Place of publication: London; Manchester; 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 form of publisher's name and address and dated general advertisements on endpapers in Massey Library copy. Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

Wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  Plates are printed in purple-brown.

Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.

Includes "Index." (p. [183]) and "Description of Plates." (p. [184]-188).

With the same setting of type (but lacking signature mark on p. 135) wood-engraved illustrations and plates  (printed in colour) as used in a 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 black) are the same as those used in another yellowback edition published [Ca. 1880?] by George Routledge & Sons.  See McLean D 1226.

The same wood-engraved plates were used 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 1226 and McLean D 1229.  Upper cover printed with titling and illustration similar to those within the text, including statement: "Price One Shilling".  Lower cover printed in black with general advertisement for "Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap" and includes imprint: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London, E. C.".  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with general advertisements entitled: "Routledge's Railway Library Advertiser. [Issue Thirteenth]".