Volumes of uniform size 19 x 13 5 cm. "Produced by Richard Lydekker for the Lloyd's Natural History Series 1896. 92 chromolithograph plates." Contemporary buckram cover with gilt lines. Gilt titles and gilt bands on spine. Very good condition. Volume I. A Hand-Book to the British Mammalia. xi, [1], 339 pages. 32 chromolithograph plates. Volume II. A Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata. xv, [1], 320 pages. 38 chromolithograph plates. Volume III. A Hand-Book to the Carnivora. vii, [1], 312 pages. 38 chromolithograph plates. "Richard Lydekker worked with the British Museum of Natural History for over twenty years. To this day he is still seen as one of the great and most revered authorities on the wildlife and fauna of the world." Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.