Author: Blackwall, John
Title: A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland
Description: Ray Society 1861-1864 vi, 174; iv, 175-384, 29 hand-col plates. . HB. 2 parts bound as one, folio (362x260mm), recent buckram, gilt title to spine. Very clean copy, without the foxing often found in this work. Very good.. First edition. Rare, only 600 copies printed. Beautifully illustrated with fine hand-coloured lithographic plates by Tuffen West, A. Hollick and R. Templeton; in addition 10 plates in Pt II which bear no signature were probably by O. Pickard-Cambridge; all printed by W. West. John Blackwall (1790-1881) was a British zoologist and renowned arachnologist. The present book, Blackwall's magnum opus, took more than a decade to produce. With only a small lens, he fully described over 300 spiders; 67 of these were new to science. 272 spiders are illustrated.Curle pp 61-62; Nissen ZBI 380..

Keywords: Britain; Hand-coloured plates; Spiders; Araneae; Arachnida


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