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Autore |
Perry George <b. 1771.> |
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Titolo |
Perry's Arcana |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786612310966 |
9781282310964 |
1282310968 |
9781439901977 |
143990197X |
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Edizione |
[A facsimile ed. /] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (577 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Natural history illustration |
Animals |
Plants |
Natural history illustrators - Great Britain |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Paul Callomon -- Perry's Arcana: Collation and Systematic Review -- Introduction -- Date and Format -- Title Page―Introduction -- Dedication -- Covers -- Collation -- Price -- Rarity -- Plates, Artists, and Engravers -- Watermarks -- Publisher, Printer, and "Index -- Sources -- Text -- Taxa -- Acknowledgments -- Literature Cited -- Perry's Arcana: Facsimile Edition -- Reader's Guide to Perry's Arcana -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for |
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nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberat |
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