LEADER 03155nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910969981803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612310966 010 $a9781282310964 010 $a1282310968 010 $a9781439901977 010 $a143990197X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000794116 035 $a(EBL)449805 035 $a(OCoLC)489150722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10390728 035 $a(PQKB)10706372 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC449805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL449805 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10335382 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL231096 035 $a(Perlego)2039964 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000794116 100 $a20090619d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPerry's Arcana 205 $aA facsimile ed. /$bwith a collation and explanatory essay by Richard E. Petit. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (577 p.) 300 $aOriginally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811. 311 08$a9781439901953 311 08$a1439901953 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aFrom 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 deliberat 517 3 $aArcana 606 $aNatural history illustration 606 $aAnimals$vPictorial works 606 $aPlants$vPictorial works 606 $aNatural history illustrators$zGreat Britain 615 0$aNatural history illustration. 615 0$aAnimals 615 0$aPlants 615 0$aNatural history illustrators 676 $a590.22/2 700 $aPerry$b George$fb. 1771.$01811498 701 $aPetit$b Richard E$01811499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969981803321 996 $aPerry's Arcana$94363393 997 $aUNINA