L'aurelien: : ou, histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalenes, et papillons Anglois; avec les plantes dont ils se nourissent; et le detail exact de leurs differents changemens, des endroits qu'ils frequentent dans l'etat ailé, et de leurs noms vulgaires ou scientifiques donnés et etablis par la Societé des Aureliens Anglois. Dessiné grave et colorié d'après les sujets vivants. / Par Moise Harris.
Moses Harris (1731-1785)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101506
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xv, 90, [4] p., XLIV leaves of plates ; fol. Hand-coloured title page and plates. Imperfect?: leaf after title page cut away. Pencil number "4142" and pencil notes "44 plates" and "CP" on front free endpaper verso. Pencil price "10/10/" on second front free endpaper. Provenance: nineteenth-century seal armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Iohn W. Walker F.S.A.'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription "T G Wright." and manuscript note in same hand pasted in: "Given to me along with a valuable collection of Bolton's Flower Drawings and four volumes 4to. of Bolton's Funguses, by Mrs. Crowther in remem-brance of Dr. Crowther after his death in 1849. T G Wright." Binding: Late eighteenth-century full straight-grained green morocco; gilt fillets and roll (looping palmettes) to form an outer border; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt tooled spine; red morocco spine label, gilt letters: 'Harris's Aurelian'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Moses Harris (1731-1785), author