Original publisher s maroon cloth, spine with gilt titles, blind decorated covers, text illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, 3 black and white plates, including one folding, to rear. 8vo., pp.xvi, 192. Brown endpapers with publisher s adverts on pastedowns. Very good copy of a rare work. In the Preface, George Ogilvie M.D., Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine, in Marshal College and University of Aberdeen, states that his object was to bring forward, in a popular form the views now generally held by philosophical naturalists in regard to a common plan of construction, traceable in each of the primary divisions of the animal kingdom.