A natural history of uncommon birds, : and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. Exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates, ... coloured after life. ... In four parts. / By George Edwards, ...
George Edwards (1694 - 1773)
Category
Books
Date
1751
Materials
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082326
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], xxiv, 52; viii, 53-128; [4], 106-157; [8], 158-248, [1] p., plates : map ; 4to. Shelved and uniform with Edwards's 'Gleanings'. Imperfect: wanting lists of subscribers in vol. 1 (pp. xxi-xxiv) and vol. 2 (pp. v-viii). Pencil verses at head and foot of frontispiece in vol. 1. Pencil markings in margins of preface (vol. 1). Bookseller's note in pencil on front free endpaper verso of vol. 1: "1743 Very fine copy 7 vols. £25" with bookseller's code in pencil at foot of page: "em/i/-". Provenance: Eighteenth-century bookplate: Marquis of Donegall, annotated in ms. in vol. 1: R. Hollingsworth 1806. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)]. Pencil initials on second front free endpaper of vol. 1: "RH" [presumably R. Hollingsworth]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf; gilt roll to form a border; gilt floral cornerpieces; sewn onto six raised cords; spines gilt; red spine labels: 'Edwards's Natural Hist: of birds'; black spine labels: 'Vol. 1[-4]'; gilt rolled board edges; marbled endpapers; pale blue ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
George Edwards (1694 - 1773), author