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A YEAR AT THE SHORE

by Philip Henry Gosse

Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse

Published by Alexander Strahan. 1865

Good condition. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and borders. 36 b/w plates printed in colour by Leighton Brothers. xii and 330 pages including index plus 2 pages publisher adverts to rear.

Third printing. Re-backed with original spine laid down. Front pastedown has a couple of small chips, endpapers have a few minor marks. A few margin marks and foxspots. All plates present, colours vivid and bright. One plate has a margin crease. A nice copy considering its age.

Stock no. 1208918

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Contents

  • I. JANUARY
  • Advance of Waves upon a Beach
  • II. FEBRUARY
  • View from Babbicombe Cliffs
  • III. MARCH
  • Invention of the Aquarium
  • IV. APRIL
  • Barren Sand
  • V. MAY
  • Lesser Weaver
  • VI. JUNE
  • Maidencombe
  • VII. JULY
  • Dredging Ground
  • VIII. AUGUST
  • Rock pools
  • IX. SEPTEMBER
  • Ball's Dredge
  • X. OCTOBER
  • Life in Tropical Seas
  • XI. NOVEMBER
  • Clarence's Dream of the Sea Bottom
  • XII. DECEMBER
  • Squirters

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