The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life

374pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous further black and white plate illustrations and line drawings in text.  Green publisher's cloth-covered boards, decorated with illustration on front panel and gilt work, gilt lettering front and spine.  Top edge sprayed green. Title page printed in red and black, with vignette. 8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends.  Text block edges slightly dust darkened.  Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper paper else else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  Now in a protective clear plastic sleeve, not adhered to volume. A lovely vintage volume examining animal ways and behaviours.