description three hundred animals including (2 Ergebnisse)

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A revised edition of this broad and charmingly illustrated work of natural history, compiled by Thomas Boreman and originally intended for the use of schools. New edition, "carefully revised, corrected, and considerably augmented by A. D. M. H.F.S.A.". Rebacked, with the contemporary tree calf boards and later crushed morocco spine, with cloth spine label. Renewed endpapers. Bound with the original blanks and half title. Missing the title page, with bibliographical information drawn from a copy held by Hathi Trust. With a frontispiece and an engraved vignette for each animal. Thomas Boreman was one of the earliest English children's book publishers, with this title first published c1730. It is also said that his works inspired Buffon's publication of the Histoire naturelle. As the title suggests, this volume offers descriptions of upwards of three hundred animals, organised into quadrupeds, birds, fishes and reptiles. Overviews of the characteristics, habitats and behaviours are given for each animal, together with occasional personal observations and anecdotes of the author. Rebacked, with the contemporary tree calf boards and later crushed morocco spine, with cloth spine label. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the original boards, with loss to the upper front corner. Light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with a few scattered spots. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st thus xx (364 (16) pp engraved frontispiece and 300 text wood-engravings of animals, , the contents clean and tight with no inscriptions. Recently re cased in th full tree calf binding the original spine relayed. The binding tight with no splits or chips.The label notes "Description of Three Hundred Animals Bewicks Cuts" although not attributed to Bewick in the book the woodcuts are very much in his style. Hugo, Bewick collector (supplement) 4240 "posses some of the original blocks and imagine them to be byThomas Bewick. Most of them are certainly not by him and perhaps none are". The bibliographer Nigel Tattersfield identifies them as the work of Samuel Williams.