The Observer’s Book of Pond Life
CLEGG, John
Illustrated by E.C. Mansell.
EARLY ISSUE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Frederick Warne, [1956]
Stock code: 48133
Price: £18.00
Sm. 8vo., with 32 coloured plates and 16 plates in monochrome by Mansell, 16 photographs by the author, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper charts; original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Observer 24. Print code 934.156. 'A classic, perhaps the most successful natural history title after Birds, it was first devised as a companion to the author's Freshwater Life of the British Isles' (Marren & Carter). Marren & Carter p.160.