Engraved title page.

Part 2 has a special title page (engraved), only, with title: Figures of English spiders, a work originally given by Eleazar Albin, revised and designed anew by Thomas Martyn.

The first part has [6], ii, viii, [1], 70 p. and [1], 11 leaves of plates; the second part has [4], 31, [1] p. and 17 leaves of plates.

Two engraved leaves with facsimiles of medals ("aurea numismata") are bound in following the title page in part 1.

The engraved title page in part 1 is signed: Tomkins scr., Vincent scu., and the engraved title page in part 2 is signed: Vincent scr. & scu. The plates are ascribed by Nissen to J. Basire, J. Carwitham and Jas. Smith.

ESTC (online) T85942

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 2724

Donald Heald Rare Books; purchase; 03/2013; $4000.00.

SCNHRB copy 39088016912446 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.

SCNHRB copy has a later red half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, a gilt-tooled spine, and top edge gilt. There is a brief handwritten pencil annotation in an unknown hand on plate 10.