Author: Collinge, Walter
Title: The Conchologist / a Journal of Malacology; Volume 1-5
Description: London/ Birmingham/ Berlin, Swan Sonnenschein & Co./ Dulau anmd Co./ Friedlaender & Sons, 1896. Hardcover. Five volumes bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Volume 1 only has a brown spine with white handwritten title. Volume 1: viii, 88 pp, 4 pp at the end that appear to be title pages for each quarterly issue of 1891. Volume 2: viii, 232 pp, 8 title page issues of volume II in rear followed by advertisements. Volume 3: bw portrait frontispiece, 80 pp, 4 title pages for issues of volume III in rear followed by advertisements. Volume 4: bw frontispiece, 88, 4 title pages of volume 4 issues in rear followed by advertisements. Volume 5 has a bw frontispiece, 68 pp, 4 title pages of volume 5 in rear followed by advertisements. Five volumes of a larger volume set, this being volumes 1-5. Each has bw illustrations. Good- (library labels on spines and inside front covers, bookplates from museum inside front cover. Cloth of spine on volume 3 is torn loose. Several pencil markings throughout. Volume 2 has a loose rear page. ) .

Keywords: Periodicals ; Mollusks ; Malacology ; ;