Title: Homes without Hands, Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to their Principle of Construction. New Impression. 
Author: The Rev. J. G. Wood. 
Illustrations: with new designs by E. F. Keyl and E. Smith. Engraved by G. Pearson. 
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co: London; New York and Bombay.
Published Date: 1898.
Condition: Very good. 
 
This works explores the habitations of mammals, birds and insects and is arranged according to the type of habitation. For example, those creatures who suspect their homes in the air, those who use natural materials to build their homes, those who live in water etc....
 
Bound in the original publisher's dark green cloth and ornately decorated in gilt to the front cover and spine. This copy has an additional gilt stamp to the front cover for The Grammar Schools - Wallingford, and it was clearly presented as a prize. The book has a very slight forward lean; the boards are in very good condition with some rubbing and bumping to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. There is a prize sticker to the front pastedown dated 1901. Frontispiece with tissue guards. Contents in good condition with some moderate to light intermittent foxing throughout.