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NOTE ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF THE EARLIER PARTS 

 OF CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 2nd EDITION. 



By Alexander Eeynell. 



Read llth June, 1920. 

 Some five or six years ago I came across a volume made up, evidently, 

 of some few parts of the above-mentioned work. The front and 

 back covers were formed of the original front wrappers of parts 2 and 

 4. These covers bear no date of issue, but fortunately, pasted inside, 

 are two labels of the " Lincoln Library ", bearing between them the 

 following inscription, partly in manuscript : " Not to be circulated 

 but on £1 05. Ocl. deposit, March 14th, 1838." 



On taking the second stitching to pieces and piecing letterpress 

 and plates together according to the original stitching, I found 

 I had the first four parts with their plates. The title on the cover 

 reads as follows : — 



" Illustrations | of the | Conchology | of | Great Britain and 

 Ireland : — with the | Description and Localities of all the Species, | 

 Marine, Land, and Fresh Water. | Drawn from Nature by | Captain 

 Thomas Brown, F.L.S.M., W.S.M.K.S. | President of, the Eoyal 

 Physical Society, etc. | Second Edition, greatly enlarged | 

 Edinburgh | Published by Maclachlan & Stewart, 64, South Bridge; | 

 Glasgow : John Smith & Son, 70, St. Vincent Street ; | Dublin : 

 William Curry Jun. & Co. ; | Smith, Elder, & Co., 65, Cornhill, and 

 W. S. Orr & Co , Paternoster Eow. | London. | To be had of all 

 other Booksellers." 



At the top right- and left-hand corners are the price and part 

 numbers respectively. The contents of the parts are :-^ 



Part 1, pp. 1-8, plates i-iv. 

 ,, 2, pp. 9-12, plates v-viii. 



,, 3, pp. 13-16, plates ix-xii. Plate ix originally numbered iii, 

 and altered ; an x being struck over the second and third i's. 

 ,, 4, pp. 17-20, plates xiv, xvi, xxii, xxvi. 



