Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British ornithology
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H", "Packard, Jean R.", "Selby, Prideaux John"], "topic": ["Animals", "Birds"], "language": ["English language"], "place": ["Great Britain"], "usage_flag": ["BHLEX"], "online_media_type": ["Scanned books"]}, "freetext": {"date": [{"label": "Date", "content": "1819"}], "identifier": [{"label": "Call number", "content": "QL674 .S46 1819"}, {"label": "Call number", "content": "QL674.S46 1819"}], "notes": [{"label": "Notes", "content": "BM (NH) and Zimmer date the work from [1821]; Nissen from [1819]"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Engraved illustrated title pages, signed: \"Designed & engraved by W.H. Lizars\""}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Issued in 19 pts.; reissued with varying numbers of plates over 13 years, individual copies vary. There was no text printed along with the plates. \"About 1819 Selby issued a separate quarto volume of letterpress describing the land birds, but very few copies were printed ... by issuing the text separately, Selby avoided having to deposit copies of the expensive plates at the Stationer's Office.\"\" -- See Christine E. Jackson. Bird etchings (Ithaca, N.Y., 1985), p. 202-204"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Plates not numbered sequentially, some numbers repeated, other numbers have the addition of one or more asterisks"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Vol. 2 with imprint: 1834. Printed for the proprietor, & published by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, London; and W. Curry Junr. & Co., Dublin"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbu\u00cc\u0088cher, 853"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 571"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB has two copies, both of uncolored plates. See Cullman Library file for a detailed collation."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 1 (v.1: 39088013477831; v.2: 39088013477872) half bound in diced sheepskin and marbled paper boards, red goatskin label on front cover, with title in gilt; housed in blue cloth-coved boxes with blind-embossed leather labels on front."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013477914) imperfect: of the series first, Land birds, no. 2 (17 pls), no. 3 (12 pls), no. 7 (14 pls); of series second, Water birds, no. II (13 pls), no. III (10 pls), no. VII (10 pls)."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Mrs. Jean R. Packard."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 half bound as 1 v. in recent calf and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, title in gilt within goatskin spine label; measures: 60 x 51 cm. Original pink printed paper labels of the individual pts., mounted on larger leaves, preceding each series."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Elecresource"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 1 (v.1: 39088013477831; v.2: 39088013477872) half bound in diced sheepskin and marbled paper boards, red goatskin label on front cover, with title in gilt; housed in blue cloth-coved boxes with blind-embossed leather labels on front"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013477914) imperfect: of the series first, Land birds, no. 2 (17 pls), no. 3 (12 pls), no. 7 (14 pls); of series second, Water birds, no. II (13 pls), no. III (10 pls), no. VII (10 pls)"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 half bound as 1 v. in recent calf and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, title in gilt within goatskin spine label; measures: 60 x 51 cm. Original pink printed paper labels of the individual pts., mounted on larger leaves, preceding each series"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB c. 2 with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Mrs. Jean R. Packard"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB has two copies, both of uncolored plates. See Cullman Library file for a detailed collation"}, {"label": "Contents", "content": "Vol. 1. Land birds -- v. 2. Water birds"}], "name": [{"label": "author", "content": "Selby, Prideaux John 1788-1867"}, {"label": "Author", "content": "Lizars, W. 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