Wonderful Nests. From "Homes without Hands". With 30 Illustrations. [Bound with] Homes Under the Ground. A Description of Animals Which Make Their Homes in the Ground. With 28 Illustrations

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Full Calf. Near Fine. Two books bound together as an attractive school prize binding, with gilt impression of Halleybury School as centerpiece of front board. Also mounted prize plate dated 1900 on FEP. All edges are marbled, in pattern the same as the endpapers. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. 256 pp. These are both later editions, issued five and four years after their first issue. Still a broad survey of animal life that would have excited many a young student. Spine extremities somewhat rubbed and worn. Spine leather sunned. Otherwise a clean and tight copy. (Inventory #: 20245)