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The dwellers in our gardens : their lives and works / by Sara Wood.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1881 Wood
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Sara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garden ecology--Great Britain.
- Garden ecology.
- Garden animals--Great Britain.
- Garden animals.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1881.
- Pictorial cloth bindings
- Physical Description:
- 184 p., 6 leaves of col. plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- 3d ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Groombridge and Sons, 1881.
- Summary:
- Color illustrations: insect disguises, butterflies and moths, our garden choristers: robin, blackbird, and thrushes, gold-crested wren, and moths of leaf-miners.
- Contents:
- The slow one-who stays much at home
- The spinner and weaver
- Three lives in one
- Underground dwellers and workers
- The busy ones-who look to the future
- Our garden choristers
- Seen after sunset
- Invaders, visitors, and settlers.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in royal blue cloth with designs of dragonfly and caterpillar in black and gold and title in gold.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- OCLC:
- 25650976
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