The Infancy of Animals; The Courtship of Animals (Two Volumes)

Two uniform volumes.  xiv, 272pp; xvi, 318pp, both with black and white plate illustrations and line drawings in text.  Uniformaly bound in green publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering front spine, lovely gilt decorations on spines.  Top edges gilt.  8vos.   Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends.  Text block edges mildly toned.  'Infancy' has a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste down and a previous owner's inscription neatly inked on the front free paste down.  'Courtship' has a previous owner's name neatly inked on the front free endpaper.  Endpapers a little toned, some faint and occasional spotting. A nice looking set of two books on the natural history of animals.