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PROPERTY OF THE EARLS OF HAREWOOD
THOMAS MARTYN (FL. 1760-1816, EDITOR)
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THOMAS MARTYN (FL. 1760-1816, EDITOR)
Aranei, or a Natural History of Spiders, including the Principal Parts of ... English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the Whole Publication ... on Swedish Spiders by Charles Clerk. London: [for the editor], 1793. 2 parts in one volume. 4° (336 x 270mm.). Engraved titles, fine hand-coloured frontispiece in part one with gilt border and 28 hand-coloured plates by Basire, Carwitham and Smith, 2 plain plates of medals. (Light spotting confined to two text leaves, small soot marks to verso of second engraved title and recto of part-title as well as recto rear free endpaper.) Contemporary tree-calf, gilt frames to covers composed of a rolled scroll tool sandwiched between a triple border of one thick and two thin fillets with an inner dotted roll tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk ribbon marker (expertly rebacked with matching gilt spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (engraved armorial bookplate).
A HANDSOME COPY OF MARTYN'S WORK ON SPIDERS WITH ATTRACTIVE PLATES AND FRONTISPIECE. A writer, pamphleteer, natural history dealer and draughtsman, Thomas Martyn is best known for his magnificent works on shells. He issued the Aranei as a revised re-publication founded on 2 separate works, Clerck's study of Swedish spiders Svenska Spindlar (Stockholm, 1757) which he describes in the preface as 'minute, curious and interesting' and Albin's A Natural History of Spiders (London, 1736), praising the accurate delineation 'both as to their size and distinctive marks.' BM(NH) III, p.1259; Brunet III, 1507; Freeman 2501; Nissen ZBI 2724.
Aranei, or a Natural History of Spiders, including the Principal Parts of ... English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the Whole Publication ... on Swedish Spiders by Charles Clerk. London: [for the editor], 1793. 2 parts in one volume. 4° (336 x 270mm.). Engraved titles, fine hand-coloured frontispiece in part one with gilt border and 28 hand-coloured plates by Basire, Carwitham and Smith, 2 plain plates of medals. (Light spotting confined to two text leaves, small soot marks to verso of second engraved title and recto of part-title as well as recto rear free endpaper.) Contemporary tree-calf, gilt frames to covers composed of a rolled scroll tool sandwiched between a triple border of one thick and two thin fillets with an inner dotted roll tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk ribbon marker (expertly rebacked with matching gilt spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (engraved armorial bookplate).
A HANDSOME COPY OF MARTYN'S WORK ON SPIDERS WITH ATTRACTIVE PLATES AND FRONTISPIECE. A writer, pamphleteer, natural history dealer and draughtsman, Thomas Martyn is best known for his magnificent works on shells. He issued the Aranei as a revised re-publication founded on 2 separate works, Clerck's study of Swedish spiders Svenska Spindlar (Stockholm, 1757) which he describes in the preface as 'minute, curious and interesting' and Albin's A Natural History of Spiders (London, 1736), praising the accurate delineation 'both as to their size and distinctive marks.' BM(NH) III, p.1259; Brunet III, 1507; Freeman 2501; Nissen ZBI 2724.