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

Title Variants

Alternative: Coleopterous insects of England

Alternative: Martyn's English insects

By

Martyn, Thomas, active 1760-1816 , author

Martyn, Thomas, active 1760-1816 , Entomologist Anglois
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840 , illustrator
Vincent, active 1792- , engraver
W. Bulmer and Co., , printer
Shakspeare Press, , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[London], [Thomas Martyn], MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793]

Notes

Engraved title page.

The dedication is dated March 21, 1793 (page [5], 1st group).

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

"From the Shakspeare Press, by W. Bulmer & Co." --Colophon, page 33 (2nd group).

The title page is signed: Tomkins scr., Vincent scu.

"The preface to the French version terminates with an announcement, which is wanting from the English version, that the author had in preparation a work on birds, to be published in 1793, on the same lines as the 'Universal conchologist.' --British Museum (Natural History) catalogue.

"The dedication to Charles IV, King of Spain, and the Indies, is dated March 21, 1793 and the paper and plates in some instances, carry 1801 watermarks. Although watermark dates cannot always be relied upon, it does not seem as if this book actually appeared in 1792. The title page was probably engraved in 1792 and used later when the forty-two plates were finished. This no doubt took place between 1793 and 1801 ... On the other hand, the 1801 signatures may have been printed in 1801 and bound with signatures printed previously." --H.B. Weiss, "Thomas Martyn's 'English entomologist'", Journal of the New York Entomological Society, v. 46, no. 3 (September 1938), pages 322-323.

Plates 1-42 are hand-colored.

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) | v. 3, p. 1259

English short title catalogue | T80793

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, | 2725

Text in English and French.

Subjects

Beetles , Great Britain

Call Number

QL591.G7 M38

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.138312
OCLC: 6360176
Soulsby: 1230b