Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Octopus: Or the "Devil-Fish" Of Fiction and of Fact
I am indebted to my friend Mr. Thomas Davidson, &c., for the beautiful portrait of the Octopus which forms the frontispiece to this volume; to Mrs. Edward Harris for the drawing of its eggs (fig. To Miss Gertrude Woodward for that of its tongue (fig. 4) and to Messrs. West and Co., and Mr. Charles A. Ferrier, for the care they have respectively bestowed on the lithographing and engraving of the illustrations.
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