Details

Subject(s)

• Birds—Juvenile literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Birds—Pictorial works [Browse]

Bookseller

• Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809 [Browse]

Former owner

• Quayle, Eric [Browse]
• Dawson, John William, Sir, 1820-1899 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Publishers' catalogs [Browse]
• Bookplates [Browse]

Notes

• Each of the 3 volumes also has a half title page.
• "Containing the first and second orders" --Volume I ; "Beginning with the fourth order"--Volume II ; "Containing the sixth order" --Volume III.
• "Directions for facing the plates" on [1] page at end of parts III, IV and VI.
• Engravings dated: "June 1st, 1787," except for Part II (dated "Feb. 6, 1787"), and some plates in Parts I and IV (dated "Oct. 2nd, 1787"); others in those two parts (e.g. frontispiece, Volume I) are dated "June 1st, 1787."
• Erratum note on verso of page 77 of Volume II.
• Publisher's catalog on 7 unnumbered pages at the end of Volume III.
• Princeton copy 1: All three volumes with engraved heraldic bookplate of John Dawson on front pastedowns; his crest features a cat with a mouse in its mouth atop a shield of arms.
• Princeton copy 1: Pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper recto of volume 1 of "Eric S. Quayle, Greensleeves, Sutton, Coldfield, 1962" with background depiction of the house

Binding note

• Uniform in contemporary full mottled dark brown sheep, both covers with gilt-ruled decorative floral borders; gilt turn-ins and edge-rolls; panelled spines, gilt-stamped with fleurons, and gilt-stamped with title and volume number on black and teal spine labels, respectively.
• Princeton copy 1: Spines and hinges with later repairs, adding marbled-paper pastedowns and free endpapers.

References

English short title catalogue, T61271

OCLC

1122611962

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