The entertaining naturalist : being popular descriptions, tales and anecdotes of more than five hundred animals, comprehending all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c. of which a knowledge is indispensable in polite education. With indexes of scientific and popular names, an explanation of terms, and an appendix of fabulous animals. Illustrated by upwards of three hundred and fifty accurately drawn figures /
Jane Wells Webb (1807 - 1858)
Category
Books
Date
1843
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3193355
Summary
Bibliographic description
xliii, [1], 532 p. : ill. ; 18cm. No ownership marks. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red sheep or calf on marbled paper boards, gilt and blind tooling on spine; green leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Jane Wells Webb (1807 - 1858), author Josiah Wood Whymper (Ipswich 1813 - Haslemere 1903) Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828), engraver (printmaker) William Harvey (1796-1866)