Nicholson, H. Alleyne (1886). Natural History, Its Rise and Progress in Britain, as Developed in the Life and Labours of Leading Naturalists. London: W&R Chambers, 312pp. From publisher’s British Science Biographies series. Hardback, with red-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt and black lettering and design to spine and front cover. Slight wear to corners, and top and base of spine. Bookseller’s sticker on inside front board and tipped in advert for next in series. Text age-toned. Booksellers’ pencil annotations on half-title page and back of title page, otherwise clean. Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Charles Darwin.  In very good condition.