The English entomologist : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England, including upwards of 500 different specials, the figures of which have never before been given to the public : the whole accurately drawn & painted after nature

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Author

Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760-1816.

Title

The English entomologist : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England, including upwards of 500 different specials, the figures of which have never before been given to the public : the whole accurately drawn & painted after nature / arranged and named according to the Linnean system by Thomas Martyn.

Published

[London] : His Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, No. 10 Great Marlborough Street, London, MDCCXCII [1792, i.e. 1793]

Physical Description

[4], 33, [1], 41, [5] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.

Local Notes

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in gilt red morocco.

Notes

"From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & Co."--P. 33, 2nd count.

Apparently a reissue of the English-text edition of 1792, with the addition of the dedication and the French text.

Each part with a separate engraved t.p and separate pagination. Engraved t.p. signed: Tomkins [Charles Tomkins?] scr.; Vincent scu.

Dedication dated March 21, 1793.

With two engraved plates of medals.