Gleanings of natural history, : exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c. ... With descriptions of seventy different subjects, designed, engraved, and coloured after nature, on fifty copper-plate prints. / By George Edwards, ...
George Edwards (1694 - 1773)
Category
Books
Date
1758 - 1764
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082185
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : port. ; fol. Shelved and uniform with Edwards's' 'Natural history of uncommon birds'. Pencil markings in margin of preface in vols. 2-3. Provenance: Eighteenth-century bookplate: Marquis of Donegall [annotated in ms. in vol. 1 of Edwards's' 'Natural history of uncommon birds': R. Hollingsworth 1806. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)].. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf; gilt roll to form a border; sewn onto six raised cords; spines gilt; red spine labels: 'Edwards's Natural Hist: of birds'; black spine labels: Vol. 5[-7]; marbled endpapers; pale blue ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
George Edwards (1694 - 1773), author Du Plessis, J, translator Barker, Edmond, translator