CURTIS, John (1791-1862)

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£ 2 500
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Lot 195 | CURTIS, John (1791-1862)
CURTIS, John (1791-1862)

British Entomology. London: Richard & John E. Taylor for the author, to be sold by Ellis & Co. and others, 1823-1840.

A fine copy of the first edition. Each plate includes a representation of a British native plant, and in many cases the various juvenile stages of the insect. The author notes in the preface to the first volume that 'the plates of several of the early volumes for the greater part, and those of the last and a considerable part of the fifteenth were entirely, my own engravings, and all the others were corrected and finished by myself: the drawings also are the effort of my pencil, and the articles and descriptions are my own writing; for any errors therefore I alone am accountable'. He goes on to note that by December 1839 the plates had 'already cost upwards of £3000'. Nissen ZBI 1000.



8 volumes, octavo (242 x 151mm). 770 hand-coloured engraved plates with each of the plants accompanying the insects identified in ink at the head of each plate in a neat 19th-century hand (a clean, bright copy). Contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: Sir Norman Lamont, 2nd Baronet (1869-1949; armorial bookplate).





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