Life and Her Children
Buckley, Arabella B.
| Publication Date |
1880 |
| Publisher |
Edward Stanford, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
| SKU |
24816 |
| Notes |
Leather is clean and bright. slightly rough to spine edges with short splits to the edges at both head and tail of spine. Board remains firmly attached. Worn to tips of corners. Slight crease to prelims. Text is very clean. |
Description
Hardback. First edition. Full tree calf leather binding with raised bands and gilt decorations to the spine. Decorative gilt border to the boards. Marbled endpapers and marbled cloased page edges. School stamp in gilt to the upper board for Timsbury House School, near Reading. Arabella Buckley was geologist Charles Lyell’s assistant and a science writer in her own right. She was a champion of Darwinian evolution and particularly skilled at writing for a non-scientific, popular or younger audience. Life and Her Children is written for a younger audience. Illustrated with over 100 illustrations by John James Wild.
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