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
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3082328.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 vol. containing v.3 and v.4...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 mottled leather binding; gilt fillet border; six raised bands; spine gilt decorated and (missing) spine label.
Makers and roles
George Edwards (1694 - 1773)