London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. Four Volumes. Third Edition. Complete with 132 plates.Containing nearly two thousand specimens all coloured by hand. Original dark green decorated buckram. Slight fading / rubbing to the gilt. Handling to top and base of spine. Bump / crease to the front of Vol III (see images). Internally clean and tidy with slight foxing to the end papers. Morris is "best known by his works on natural history, which, although popular rather than scientific, had much literary value" (DNB). xvi, 253., iv, 180., iv, 233., iv, 5-322. pp. 260 x 160 mm (10¼ x 6¼ inches).