Title
Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes : a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and oeconomy : an account of the various species and singular properties of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope
Title Variants
Alternative:
Adams, Essays on the microscope
Alternative:
Microscopical essays
By
Adams, George, 1750-1795
Duché, Thomas Spence, 1763-1790
, illustrator
Milne, T., active 1787-
, illustrator
Lodge, John, 1796
, engraver
Goodnight, active 1787-
, engraver
Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836
, engraver
Wigley, James, 1700-1782
, engraver
Bonles, T., active 1787-
, engraver
Hindmarsh, Robert, 1759-1835
, printer
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Prined for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh ... and sold by the author, at his shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, no. 60, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Notes
The frontispiece is signed: T.S. Duché pinxit. The plates were drawn by T. Milne or R. Laurie, and engraved by Jn. Lodge, Goodnight, J. Wigley, or Bonles.
Diamond-shaped tail-pieces featuring embedded lines of text: R. Hindmarsh, printer, 1787.
The folded plates are numbered 1-31, plus "26A." Double plate numbers on single leaves (each counted as one leaf of plates) include: 2A-B; 7A-B; 23A-B; and 24A-B.
Page 451 is misnumbered as 154; page 696 is misnumbered as 692.
Press figures.
Errata on p. 724.
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., | p. 5
ESTC (online) | T8505
Subjects
1787
,
Adams
,
Animalcules
,
Early works
,
Early works to 1800
,
England
,
Insects
,
London
,
Mezzotints
,
Microorganisms
,
Microscopes
,
Microscopy
,
Publishers' advertisements
Call Number
QH271 .A2 1787
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.82299
OCLC:
1560930
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