12mo. In two volumes. viii, 240; viii, 240pp. With half-titles. Numerous wood-engravings in the text. Bound by Hodgson of Liverpool in contemporary blue calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing.

A finely bound copy of an early edition of a Juvenile natural history primer, largely adapted and abridged from Bewick's A general history of quadrupeds (1799) and History of British birds (1799), first published in 1825.