The Natural History of British Fishes

Full Title: Natural History of British Fishes: Their Structure, Economic Uses and Capture by Net and Rod. Cultivation of Fish-ponds. Fish Suited for Acclimatisation. Artificial Breeding of Salmon.
Second Hand
Hardcover
Author: Buckland, F.
Published by: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Book Condition: Fair.
Orig. pictorial olive-green cloth with gilt and black cover and spine titles. Picture to front cover of fishing boats and cliffs. Small circular area missing to spine and wear to edges. Textblock split at pp. 256-257. Ashmolean Library stickers to FEP & FFEP with stamp to title page, rear pastedown and a very small number of other pages. Otherwise internally fairly crisp, clean and bright.
8vo. xii + 420pp + 4pp publisher’s catalogue at the rear. Numerous text illustrations.
Westwood and Satchell point out that this is a rewritten work based on Buckland’s earlier ‘A familiar history of the British fishes,’ which the author refers to in the preface as the ‘first edition’. The characteristics, economic uses and cultivation of many different fish species are discussed in a work completed by the zoologist a few days before his death.