The Wonder Book of Nature for Boys and Girls with 8 colour plates and nearly 350 illustrations.
Edited by Harry Golding, F.R.G.S., 7th Edition.
Published by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London & Melbourne. c1927.
Printed in GB by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London.

Dimensions : 250mm x 185mm x 27mm. Weight : 1.040kg net.

8vo, 256 medium/heavy duty, gloss numbered pages.

Condition/Notes : Quite good. No DJ. The front board with pasted coloured printed illustration has wear to edges and wear/bumps to corners, scratching and marking to face with eagle on mountain top. Back board decorated gilt pattern pasted with similar wear and marking. Red linen spine has wear top and tail, sunning with colour losses in places,  black ink lettters and illustration. Front p/d and e/p combined pale green illustration with Spring and Summer titles lower edges (The Four Seasons by Grace Jones); some foxing and faded ink script top rh corner and 6/- in pencil top rh corner of p/d.pp with title and illustrations with foxing; verso 4 sepia photos and script below. Frontispiece follows, colour plate African Lion and Lioness. Title facing with sepia oval photo of bird on the hand; list of other Wonder Books priced at 5s. net or 6s. Cloth. List of Colour Plates facing; verso Contents p6-7. Commences p8  Our Wonderful World  through to p236. Pages generally light/medium usage, light toning to edges, some light marking. 8 colour plates good with details. Many sepia and black and white photos/illustrations. Back e/p-p/d pale green illustration titled Autumn and Winter lower edges (The Four Seasons by Grace Jones). Binding quite tight but with strains p96-97. Dusting to edges. Slight cocking. Generally, a good volume from this popular vintage series.

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