ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY, WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS by REVERUND JOHN GEORGE WOOD, J. G. WOOD - 1897

PHILADELPHIA: HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY, 1897 VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, FRONT COVER SHOWS A TIGER IN BLACK OUTLINES IN GREEN GRASS, ORANGE PRINT ON FRONT. CHALK MARK ON 1ST BLANK PAGE, LIGHT FOXING IN THE BACK COUPLE PAGES, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. COLOR FRONTISPIECE SHOWING MONKEYS AND PARROT. GREAT NUMBER OF ANIMALS, PICTURES AND DETAIL. ALTEMUS YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY EDITION. John George Wood, or Rev J. G. Wood, (21 July 1827 – 3 March 1889), was an English writer who popularised natural history with his writings. Wood was born in London, son of the surgeon John Freeman Wood and Juliana Lisetta. He was educated at home, at Ashbourne grammar school and Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1848, M.A., 1851), and then at Christ Church, where he worked for some time in the anatomical museum under Sir Henry Acland. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.