The English entomologist : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England, including upwards of 500 different species, the figures of which have never before been given to the public : the whole accurately drawn & painted after nature / arranged and named according to the Linnean system by Thomas Martyn, at his Academy for illustrating and painting natural history, no. 10, Great Marlborough Street, London
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Bulmer & Co.\" --Colophon, page 33 (2nd group)."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "The title page is signed: Tomkins scr., Vincent scu."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "\"The preface to the French version terminates with an announcement, which is wanting from the English version, that the author had in preparation a work on birds, to be published in 1793, on the same lines as the 'Universal conchologist.' --British Museum (Natural History) catalogue."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "\"The dedication to Charles IV, King of Spain, and the Indies, is dated March 21, 1793 and the paper and plates in some instances, carry 1801 watermarks. Although watermark dates cannot always be relied upon, it does not seem as if this book actually appeared in 1792. The title page was probably engraved in 1792 and used later when the forty-two plates were finished. This no doubt took place between 1793 and 1801 ... On the other hand, the 1801 signatures may have been printed in 1801 and bound with signatures printed previously.\" --H.B. Weiss, \"Thomas Martyn's 'English entomologist'\", Journal of the New York Entomological Society, v. 46, no. 3 (September 1938), pages 322-323."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Plates 1-42 are hand-colored."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) v. 3, p. 1259"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "English short title catalogue T80793"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Nissen, C. 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