Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley swell-known book, Glaucus, which has for so long held its own amongst popular books on aquarian zoology, relates to such alterations as cause it to vary from its predecessors. In this respect the present volume makes a considerable claim. It now appears for the first time illustrated fully with text-cuts, which have been derived largely from the works of Mr. George Johnston and Professor Harvey, so frequently extolled by the author in the book itself; and eight coloured plates from Mr. P. H. Gosse s Aquarium, a work to which the author refers more than once, and which held a high place in his esteem. A few footnotes, all of which are indicated by square brackets, have been added, supplying information which will serve to render the text intelligible where a knowledge in readers of to-day which was possessed by those a half a century ago is presupposed.