The Aurelian. : A natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Also a faithful account of their respective changes, their usual haunts when in the winged state, and their standard names as established by the Society of Aurelians. Drawn engraved and coloured from the natural subjects. / By Moses Harris, ...
Moses Harris (1731-1785)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3050628
Summary
Bibliographic description
145, [5] p., [2], XLIV leaves of plates ; fol. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "original issue 44 Fine Plates in Colours 12.10.0". Pencil note on second front free endpaper: "3n 17 a-". Manuscript initials at foot of title page: "JH" [probably John Harris, who designed and engraved the title page]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Printed booklabel on front free endpaper verso with name scratched out. Late eighteenth-/nineteenth-century manuscript inscription on title page: "P. Hand/.[?]". Binding: Late eighteenth-century full calf; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt rolled inner border; small gilt-stamped cornerpieces (floral sprays); rebacked (20th century); gilt tooled spine; original red morocco spine label (gilt lettered): 'Harris's Aurelian'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Moses Harris (1731-1785), author