No collective title page; uniform title constructed from standard reference sources.

Separate t.p.s and paging for each Theil. Atlas volumes numbered continuously.

Published in two parts. Part 1: ... Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. Th. 1-3 in 1 v. Berlin, 1782-1784. Atlas 1 has the 108 plates corresponding to this part, and bears its own engr. t.p.: Kupfer zu Dr. Bloch's Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlandes. Part 2: ... Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Th. 1-9 in 3 v. Berlin, 1785-1795. Atlases 2, 3 and 4 have plates 109-432. Atlases 3 and 4 have added engraved t.p.s: Titelkupfer zu Dr. Bloch's Fischwerck.

Various imprints in text vols. Th. [2-11] have as publisher: Auf Kosten des Verfassers und in Commission in der Buchhandlung der Realschule. Th. [7-11] has imprint: Berlin: Bey den Königl. Akademischen Kunsthändlern J. Morino & Comp. Th. [12] has as publisher: Im Verlage der Morinoschen Kunsthandlung.

Engraved title vignettes by F.C.W. Rosenberg; divisional titles; woodcut head-pieces.

Plates designed by Krüger, engraved by C.L. Schmidt, J.G. Schmidt, F.G. Schmidt, G. Bodenehr, C. Darchow, F.G. Berger, F.W. Schmidt, A.F. Schmidt, and C.F. Gürsch.

Plates are hand-colored, some color printed.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nissen, C. Die Zoologische Buchillustration, 415

BM (NH), p. 176

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 has property stamps on front free endpaper: one: Bibl. Academ. Rostock (?), the other: Library of John C. Briggs.

SCNHRB c. 1 has text vols. half bound in mottled calf and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on decorated spine, red edges, old decorated paper or marbled paper as paste-downs, stamp 'K.P.' on back endpaper of some of the vols.; housed in gray archival boxes.

SCNHRB c. 2 is incomplete, Th. 1-3 only, the volumes covering German fishes.

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplates: Library of Congress [Smithsonian Deposit].

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped in red on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution; stamped in red at end: Nov. 2, 1854.

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, sprinkled edges, orange endpapers.