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    <title>Illustrated encyclopedia of animal life</title>
    <subTitle>the animal kingdom: the strange and wonderful ways of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects. A new and authentic natural history of the wildlife of the world</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>George, Edwin F.</namePart>
    <role>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Drimmer, Frederick.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Goodwin, George Gilbert.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>McClintock, Marshall.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Shuttlesworth, Dorothy Edwards.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">London</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Odhams</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1964</dateIssued>
    <issuance>continuing</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>16 v. : illus. (part col.) ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1-7. Mammals.--v. 8-9. Birds.--v. 10. Birds. Amphibians. Reptiles.--v. 11. Reptiles.--v. 12. Fishes.--v. 13. Fishes. Invertebrates.--v. 14. Invertebrates. Insects.--v. 15. Insects.--v. 16. Insects. Index.--v. 17-19. Nature lover's treasury.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">[by] George G. Goodwin [and others] Frederick Drimmer, editor-in-chief.</note>
  <note>Vols. 1-16 each include a chapter of Exploring nature with your child, by Dorothy Edwards Shuttlesworth.</note>
  <note>Vols. 1-16 published in 1954 under title: The animal kingdom. Vols. 17-19, originally published in 1947 as The Greystone nature lover's treasury, selected and edited by Marshall McClintock.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Animals</topic>
    <topic>Encyclopedias, Juvenile</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Zoology</topic>
    <topic>Encyclopedias, Juvenile</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QL45 .A6 1964</classification>
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