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Catalog Number |
1976.1.1592.12 |
Author / Creator |
Dickerson, Mary C. |
Title |
THE FROG BOOK: NORTH AMERICAN TOADS AND FROGS WITH A STUDY OF THE HABITS AND LIFE HISTORIES OF THOSE OF THE NORTHEASTERN STATES |
Published Date |
1906 |
Publisher |
Doubleday, Page & Company |
Description of Contents |
This book by Mary C. Dickerson is part of at least a twelve title series called THE NATURE LIBRARY (sometimes called the New Nature Library) published in several editions and added to over time by Doubleday. Series and volume numbers seem to change with each year of publication. Prominent horticulturalists, arborists, ornithologists, ichthyologists, mycologists, biologists, and lepidopterists contributed to the THE NATURE LIBRARY. The extensive title of THE FROG book is self-descriptive. The author gathered material with the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History. Interestingly, colour plates, depicted as "unusually true to life," were made from life studies and hand-coloured from living material by Herbert L. Guild of Providence. Other Rhode Island artists - W.A. Dean and Alma Field - contributed art work for the illustrations. The audiences described for the book are both "elementary nature students . . . fascinate(d) with pond life" as well as more advanced readers who understand scientific classifications. Like so many of the titles in THE NATURE LIBRARY series, the illustrations are incredibly well done and noteworthy unto themselves. Images of toads, pond life, and aquatic flora are especially striking. NB: The Table of Contents for this book is included within uncut pages. No attempt was made to slit these. Exhibited Summer 2018. |
Physical Description |
Measures approximately 7 1/2" wide; 10" tall; and 1 3/4" deep. The book contains 253 pages printed on heavy cream stock. Its heft is substantial. Many pages are uncut. Front and back boards are covered with fine-grained glazed green linen, bound with coarser red leather detailing. The spine is covered in that same red material; this wraps around the front and back boards. There is no printing on the front cover. The spine is printed in gilded lettering with the title, author's surname, and publisher's name, accessorized with horizontal gilded bands. Endpapers are a marbleized green and gold with cream veining. Extensively indexed and illustrated with colour and black and white plates, and line drawings within the text. |
Condition |
Good |
Search Terms |
Book Non-Fiction Nature Amphibian Animal Frog Pond Biology Toad |
Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Object Name |
Book |
Number of images |
9 |