Title
Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British ornithology
Title Variants
Alternative:
Illustrations of British ornithology
Alternative:
Selby's British ornithology
By
Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867
Lizars, W. H. 1788-1859
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co, [1819]-1834
Notes
BM (NH) and Zimmer date the work from [1821]; Nissen from [1819].
Engraved illustrated title pages, signed: "Designed & engraved by W.H. Lizars."
Issued in 19 pts.; reissued with varying numbers of plates over 13 years, individual copies vary. There was no text printed along with the plates. "About 1819 Selby issued a separate quarto volume of letterpress describing the land birds, but very few copies were printed ... by issuing the text separately, Selby avoided having to deposit copies of the expensive plates at the Stationer's Office."" -- See Christine E. Jackson. Bird etchings (Ithaca, N.Y., 1985), p. 202-204.
Plates not numbered sequentially, some numbers repeated, other numbers have the addition of one or more asterisks.
Vol. 2 with imprint: 1834. Printed for the proprietor, & published by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, London; and W. Curry Junr. & Co., Dublin.
Contents: Vol. 1. Land birds -- v. 2. Water birds.
Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, | 853
Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., | p. 571
Subjects
1788-1867
,
Birds
,
Great Britain
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Illustrations of British ornithology
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Pictorial works
,
Selby, Prideaux John,
Call Number
QL674 .S46 1819
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.101948
OCLC:
13674325
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51376613
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