Martini Lister, Historiae sive synopsis methodicae conchyliorum quorum omnium picturae, ad vivum delineatae, exhibe[n]tur liber primus, qui est de cochleis terrestribus.
Martin Lister (1638-1712)
Category
Books
Date
1685 - 1692
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200251
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 p., [494] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. (metal cuts) ; fol. Running number: 5512. Large paper copy. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt spine with fillet, roll and stamp tooling, including many floral tools; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spine. Red sprinkled and burnished edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Martin Lister (1638-1712) Susanna Lister Anna Lister