A natural history of birds. : Most of which have not been figur'd or describ'd, and others very little known from obscure or too brief descriptions without figures, or from figures very ill design'd. Containing the figures of sixty birds and two quadrupedes, engrav'd on fifty-two copper plates, after curious original drawings from life, and exactly colour'd. With full and accurate descriptions. / By George Edwards.
George Edwards (1694 - 1773)
Category
Books
Date
1743 - 1747
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082188
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : map ; 4to. Two vols. bound as one. With lists of subscribers. Bookseller's note in pencil on front free endpaper verso: "Coloured plates Fine copy 4 10 0". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, Signed G.S.24 and dated 1924: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full green straight-grained morocco; gilt roll and fillets to form a border; four recessed cords; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'Edwards's Birds'; gilt rolled at corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
George Edwards (1694 - 1773), author George Edwards (1694 - 1773), artist