In 2 vols. 8vo. price 21. 8s. illustrated by nearly 400 beautiful Woodcuts. 



A 



HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 



BY WILLIAM YARRELL, F.L.S, 



SECRETARY TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This work, which contains a complete history of the Ichtliyology 

 of Great Britain, including many species never before noticed, is 

 embellished with 



240 FIGURES OF FISHES, 



mostly taken from the objects themselves, and 

 145 ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES, 



drawn and engraved by the most eminent Artists, and no pains have 

 been spared to render it worthy of public estimation. 



" This book ought to be largely circulated, not only on account of its scientific 

 merits — though these, as we have in part shewn, are great and signal — but because 

 it is popularly written througjiout, and therefore likely to excite general attention to 

 a subject which ought to be held as one of primary importance. Every one is inte- 

 rested about fislies, — the political economist, the epicure, the merchant, the man of 

 science, the angler, the poor, the rich — We hail the appearance of this book as the 

 dawn of a new era in the Natural History of England. — Quarterly Review, 

 No. 116, April. 



" The letter-press of Mr. Yarrell's volume has sufficient of popularity mixed 

 with its texture to render it easily understood by all readers, while the dignity of 

 science has been throughout maintained. The descriptions are plain, simple, and 

 unaffected; entertaining enough for the general reader, distinct and detailed for the 

 man of science, — can we say more V — Magazine of Zoolooy and Botany. 



" It contains brief, but remarkably clear, accurate, and satisfactory notices of 

 every species of fisli, and also every variety hitherto found in the fresh waters and 

 seas of Britain. They are full of information, are often graphic and amusing in a 

 very high degree, and, being founded upon actual observation, may always be im- 

 plicitly depended on. The illustrations are exceedingly beautiful and valuable, and 

 we are quite sure tliat any one who possesses the figure can be at no loss in instantly 

 recognizing the fish, whenever and wherever he may happen to meet with a speci- 

 men." — Dublin Review. 



" Before the appearance of this valuable woik, the subject of British Fishes had 

 engaged the attention of a good many observers, and much curious information had 

 been collected. To Mr. Yarrell, so long advantageously known to naturalists, had 

 been reserved the agreeable though difficult undertaking of bringing together, in an 

 accurate form, all that is at present known on this important subject. That he has 

 succeeded, is evinced by the universal testimony of our best naturalists." — Jame- 

 son's Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 



A limited number of copies have been printed in Royal 8vo. price 

 41. 16s. and Fifty only on Imperial 8vo. price 71. 4s. ; of which last 

 Seventeen only remain for sale. 



JOHN VAN \ OORST, 1, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 



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