Grand illustrated encyclopedia of animated nature : embracing a full description of the different races of men, and of the characteristic habits and modes of life of the various beasts, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, and microscopic animalcula of the globe : being a complete history of the animal kingdom
A mid-nineteenth-century natural history encyclopedia edited by John Frost, published in Auburn, New York, in 1855 by the Auburn Publishing Company for general readers interested in animals, peoples and natural history. Its pictures are small wood-engraved plates of antelopes, zebras, fish and giraffes with short captions, showing plain line work and simple outdoor settings that a designer could use for hand-drawn botanical or animal motifs.
