Animal Coloration: An account of the principal facts and theories related to the colours and markings of animals (second edition)

Pp. vii, (1), 288; 4 full page chromolithographic plates, 36 text-figures (from woodcuts).  Publisher’s original gray cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with motif of a snake eating a frog on lower part of the front cover, lg 8vo.  Beddard’s interesting study builds on the work of Wallace, Stolzmann, Eisig, Poulton, Bateson, and Flower who have all contributed to theories concerning natural selection for animal coloration.  Bookplate of Thomas A. Jefferson on the front pastedown and signature of vertebrate paleontologist E. D. Mitchell on the front free endpaper and bottom page edge.