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HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 



BY THOMAS BELL, F.R.S. 



PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY IN KINo's COLLEGE. 



This work is illustrated by figures, engraved in the very best 

 manner on wood, of every British Animal, together with many 

 illustrative vignettes. The manner in which each department has 

 been executed may be known by the following extracts from the 

 press. 



"This elegant work proceeds as it began: the cuts are remarkable for their 

 beauty and characteristic fidelity, and the descriptions for their succinctness and 

 perspicuity." — Asiatic Journal. 



" The wood-cuts of the animals are beautiful, and the descriptions are very 

 pleasantly written." — British Magazine. 



" The notice of each animal is pitliy and instructive, while tlie cuts and 

 typography are neatness itself." — Christian Remembrancer. 



" Promises to become one of the most valuable and perfect works that have 

 been produced within our recollection : the acknowledged talents of Mr. Bell are 

 alone a guarantee that a work so undertaken by him will prove to be one of supe- 

 rior quality. A book more admirably " got up," it would be ditficult to imagine." 



Court Journal. 



"Reflects the greatest credit on its author, from the manner in which it is 

 gotten up, the purity and elegance of the style, and the clearness and beauty of 

 the wood-engravings. We are glad to see such a work, one which may be con- 

 sidered of national importance, emanating from the pen of a gentleman so fully 

 capable of doing justice to a subject of such great interest, not only to the medical 

 world, but to the public in general." — Dublin Journal of BIedical Science. 



"This work is highly deserving of encouragement. Well described, and admi- 

 rably delineated." — Johnson's JMedico-Chirurgical Review. 



" Tliis work will be an acquisition to the literature of the country." 



Metropolitan Magazine. 



"The author, whose scientific attainments are undoubted, has done what none 

 of his predecessors in the popular line iiave accomplished before him: — he lias 

 succeeded in uniting an almost professional accuracy of description with that 

 fascination of style which must ever make the book attractive to tiie general 

 reader." — ^Ionthly Magazine. 



" It speaks for itself, and in a tone which must command success : in design it 

 is excellent ; in execution, unexceptionable. Tlie combination of the scientific 

 and the popular, of the instructive and the amusing, justify the most confident 

 expectations tiiat the work will, when completed, be every way worthy of the 

 reputation of the author and the patronage of the public. In a word, tiiis work, 

 and that of which it is the proper pendant, 'Yarrell,' [see next page] may be 

 considered rivals in excellency and beauty : every liritish library should, and we 

 have little doubt will, possess both." — Morning Post. 



A few copies are also printed in Royal 8vo. and Imperial 8vo. 

 to range with the two preceding and following works. 



JOHN VAX VOORST, 1, PATKRNOSTER-ROW. 



