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
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082326.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 ([4], xxiv, 52 p.), plates ; 4to. Imperfect: wanting list of subscribers (pp. xxi-xxiv). Pencil verses at head and foot of frontispiece. Pencil markings in margins of preface. Bookseller's note in pencil on front free endpaper verso : "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.: 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: "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 label: 'Edwards's Natural Hist: of birds'; black spine label: 'Vol. 1'; gilt rolled board edges; marbled endpapers; pale blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
George Edwards (1694 - 1773), author