Vivarium naturæ or the naturalist's miscellany. ...

All titles

• Vivarium naturæ or the naturalist's miscellany. ...
• Naturalist's miscellany

People / Organizations

• Nodder & ("printed for")
• George Shaw (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Nodder & Co., 1790-1813.

Publication year

1790-1813

ESTC No.

T197337

Grub Street ID

230456

Description

25v.,plates ; 8⁰

Note

Issued in parts from 1789 and here collected into more or less annual volumes.

Titlepage to vol. 1 is engraved; other volume titlepages, which are undated except for the final volume titlepage, in letterpress are in parallel Latin and English: the English beginning with 'To [dedicatee] this [volume number] volume of the Naturalist's miscellany ...'

The indexes to vols. 16-23 each have the colophon: 'Printed by B. M?Millan, ...'

The final volume, dated 1813, is an index entitled 'General indexes, in Latin and English, of the subjects contained in the twenty-four volumes of The naturalist's miscellany; ... London: printed for, and published by, Elizabeth Nodder & Son; by B. McMillan'.

Uncontrolled note

Reprints of vols. 1-3 known and recognised as thus: vol. 1, first descriptive page (for Psittacus porphyrocephalus) has last line beginning "provectiori"; reprint has "niori". Vol. 2, first descriptive page (for Mus saliens) has catchword "pilis"; reprint has "valde". Vol. 3 has reprinted titlepages (Latin and English) but not reprinted parts; the reprinted titlepages are identified by (in the English title) "The naturalist's miscellany" as one line while the original English titlepage has "naturalist's miscellany". MRu reports w/m in vol. 24 =24