A natural history of English insects. . Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven from the life: and (for those who desire it) exactly coloured by the author Eleazar Albin, painter.
Eleazar Albin (fl.1713 - 1759)
Category
Books
Date
1720
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3052569
Summary
Bibliographic description
[106] leaves, C leaves of plates . col. ill.. . 4to.. All plates coloured. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signature (Strongitharm) illegible: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7704; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Albin of Insects".
Makers and roles
Eleazar Albin (fl.1713 - 1759)