The Boy's Own Nature Book FOLD-OUT CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1917. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. "...many common things become wonders if we know how to look at them, and many wonders become common things just because we do not keep the wonder of them alive." In these pages, you'll experience the wonder of "A Chat about Bats" and make the acquaintance of several nice hedgehogs and hares. The chapter "Our Bird Friends" will introduce you to "Feathered Benefactors," "Courtship Days in Bird-Land," and "The Quaint Language of Birds." "By the Riverside and Seashore," you'll spend a lovely afternoon hunting for tadpoles and newts, lobsters and crabs. In "Stories of Insect Life," you'll experience the vibrant urban life "In an Ant City," learn "The Ways of the Dragonfly," and study "The Stag Beetle's Courtship." This and so much more awaits you, all thoroughly illustrated here in a color frontispiece, 2 large fold-out chromolithographic plates of British moths and butterflies and their caterpillars and chrysalises, and 162 original illustrations from photographs taken by the Rev. S. N. Sedgwick-who also provides a chapter on nature-photography-taken on his own countryside ramblings, which are sure to inspire your own adventures, out in the wonderland of the out-of-doors, with The Boy's Own Nature Book in hand.

7 3/4" X 5 1/2". xvi, [ii], 374pp, plus two pages of ads and two folded chromolithographic plates held in bound-in pocket to rear pastedown: 10 1/4" X 21" folded color plate of "The 'Boy's Own' Plate of Caterpillars and Chrysalides of British Butterflies and Moths" and 22" X 10 1/4" folded color plate of "Our British Butterflies." Bound in blue cloth over boards, with color pictorial label of a hedgehog to upper board, bordered in red, to upper board, lettered in gilt, red, and black to upper board and spine, with vine decorations in green to both. Mild wear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities, faint staining to cloth, and faint dampstain to rear board. Hinges tender, with hint of spine at several pages, reinforced with archival adhesive throughout. Folded color plate of "The 'Boy's Own' Plate of Caterpillars and Chrysalides of British Butterflies and Moths" shows one neat tear at fold. Illustrated in color frontispiece, 2 large fold-out color plates, and 162 original illustrations from photographs.