12mo. 36pp. With 40 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's paper wrappers with woodcut pictorial decoration. A clean, crisp, near fine copy.

A natural history of marine animals for a juvenile readership, embellished with 40 handsome wood-engravings long attributed, albeit erroneously, to Thomas Bewick; one of seven parts issued by publisher William Davison - each on a different class of fauna - intended together to form A Cabinet of natural history.