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    • Author/Creator:Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901.
    • Title:The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".
    • Published/Created:Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 87 Princes Street, 1858.
    • Physical Description:22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: QH46 .I57 1857+ Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in original illustrated boards. In case with: Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of animals and plants. Edinburgh, 1857.
    • Notes:A continuation of: The Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of plants and animals. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1857, even though the present work does not state on the t.p. that it is vol. II. Cf. Osborne.
      Plates on double leaves.
      Publisher's advertisements on paste-downs.
    • Variant and related titles:Instructive picture book
      Lessons from the vegetable world
    • Format:Book
    • References:Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature (1926-62 edition), III, 162
      Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, II, 843
      British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 20, 659
    • Subjects:Natural history--Pictorial works.
      Botany--Pictorial works.
      Fruit--Pictorial works.
      Vegetables--Pictorial works.
      Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Edinburgh--Imprints--Specimens.
    • Genre/Form:Engravings.
    • Also listed under:Stark, Robert M. (Robert Mackenzie), 1815-1873.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3562189