The head of the spine is bumped and the head of the front paste down chipped, else a clean and solid copy. Includes a loose catalogue of other Werner publications. "Edward Step FLS (11 November 1855 - 1931) was the author of many popular and specialist books on various aspects of nature.[1] He wrote many books on botany, zoology and mycology, which were published between 1894 and (posthumously) 1941... He also contributed to the periodical, Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Nature, Country Lore & Applied Science...Step created a myth of a mouse-eating grasshopper in his book 'Marvels of Insect Life (1915), where he wrote, "In the British Museum (Natural History) there is a specimen of one of the largest known locusts, which was received from a missionary in the Congo Free State a few years ago, who had taken it in the act of feasting upon a mouse it had caught. ... The locust in question does not confine its attention to mice; large spiders, beetles and other insects, and probably small nestling birds serve it equally for food."[2] In fact, no grasshopper is known to feed on mice." (Wikipedia)