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FURNEAUX, W. (William). The Out-Door World Or Young Collector's Handbook. With 16 Colored Plates and Over 500 Illustrations in the Text.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. Second edition (so stated). 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper cover and the spine, t.e.g., xxviii, 411pp. With 16 plates in colour, 2 in brown outline, and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Some scattered foxing throughout (not affecting plates), spine slightly cocked o/w a near fine copy of an attractive book.
William Samuel Furneaux (1855-1940) was a British science teacher and nature writer. Furneaux gained considerable fame in the 1890s and early twentieth century for his popular books on butterflies, moths, pond animals, and plants from the English countryside. Furneaux states in the preface that the object of this work is to turn boys into full-fledged naturalists and collectors. The text is divided into three parts: Animal Life; The Vegetable World; and The Mineral World. The colour plates each have multiple images per plate and include butterflies; dragon-flies; moths; shells; bird’s eggs; seaweeds; mosses; ferns; wild flowers; and grasses.
In his obituary of Furneaux published in Nature in 1940, James Ritchie notes: ‘Many a school-boy of forty years ago and many younger school-boys and former pupils will be sorry to hear of the death of W. S. Furneaux. He had the knack of writing just the sort of succinct and well-illustrated practical book which stimulated the young collector to hunt for spoils and afterwards to pore over the naming of them; and his publishers aided and abetted with that profusion of coloured plates which added attractiveness to utility. “The Outdoor World” (1893), one of the best of the series, was followed by accounts of “Life in Ponds and Streams” (1896), “The Sea Shore” (1903), and “Field and Woodland Plants” (1909), and these and his other works, such as “British Butterflies and Moths” (1894), must have opened up new worlds for young naturalists of two generations. It says something for their quality that they are still amongst the best of British books for their purpose.‘ (Nature, vol. 145, p. 886).
$165
FURNEAUX, W. (William). The Out-Door World Or Young Collector's Handbook. With 16 Colored Plates and Over 500 Illustrations in the Text. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. Second edition (so stated). 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper cover and the spine, t.e.g., xxviii, 411pp. With 16 plates in colour, 2 in brown outline, and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Some scattered foxing throughout (not affecting plates), spine slightly cocked o/w a near fine copy of an attractive book.
William Samuel Furneaux (1855-1940) was a British science teacher and nature writer. Furneaux gained considerable fame in the 1890s and early twentieth century for his popular books on butterflies, moths, pond animals, and plants from the English countryside. Furneaux states in the preface that the object of this work is to turn boys into full-fledged naturalists and collectors. The text is divided into three parts: Animal Life; The Vegetable World; and The Mineral World. The colour plates each have multiple images per plate and include butterflies; dragon-flies; moths; shells; bird’s eggs; seaweeds; mosses; ferns; wild flowers; and grasses.
In his obituary of Furneaux published in Nature in 1940, James Ritchie notes: ‘Many a school-boy of forty years ago and many younger school-boys and former pupils will be sorry to hear of the death of W. S. Furneaux. He had the knack of writing just the sort of succinct and well-illustrated practical book which stimulated the young collector to hunt for spoils and afterwards to pore over the naming of them; and his publishers aided and abetted with that profusion of coloured plates which added attractiveness to utility. “The Outdoor World” (1893), one of the best of the series, was followed by accounts of “Life in Ponds and Streams” (1896), “The Sea Shore” (1903), and “Field and Woodland Plants” (1909), and these and his other works, such as “British Butterflies and Moths” (1894), must have opened up new worlds for young naturalists of two generations. It says something for their quality that they are still amongst the best of British books for their purpose.‘ (Nature, vol. 145, p. 886).
$165
