03155nam 2200697Ia 450 991096998180332120200520144314.09786612310966978128231096412823109689781439901977143990197X(CKB)1000000000794116(EBL)449805(OCoLC)489150722(SSID)ssj0000341369(PQKBManifestationID)11233737(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341369(PQKBWorkID)10390728(PQKB)10706372(MiAaPQ)EBC449805(Au-PeEL)EBL449805(CaPaEBR)ebr10335382(CaONFJC)MIL231096(Perlego)2039964(EXLCZ)99100000000079411620090619d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerry's ArcanaA facsimile ed. /with a collation and explanatory essay by Richard E. Petit.Philadelphia Temple University Pressc20091 online resource (577 p.)Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811.9781439901953 1439901953 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberatArcanaNatural history illustrationAnimalsPictorial worksPlantsPictorial worksNatural history illustratorsGreat BritainNatural history illustration.AnimalsPlantsNatural history illustrators590.22/2Perry Georgeb. 1771.1811498Petit Richard E1811499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969981803321Perry's Arcana4363393UNINA