Translation of: Metamorphosis naturalis.

To the reader" (p. [8], 1st group) signed by the editor: M.L. [i.e. Martin Lister].

Mr. F. Pl., the etcher, has been identified as Francis Place.

Title page in red and black.

Initials; side-notes.

The plates are accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.

Errors in paging: p. 70 is misnumbered as 71; p. 71 is misnumbered as 70; p. 90 is misnumbered as 09.

Signatures: A-S⁴ T⁴ (-T4).

Leaf A1 is blank.

With a final errata leaf (T3).

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), G1003

ESTC (online), R014347

Lisney, A.A. Brit. lepidoptera, 1608-1799, no. 45

Hagen, H.A. Bib. entomologica, I, p. 288

Antiquariaat Junk; purchase; 2008; $4935.00.

SCNHRB copy 39088014683478 has had the printed errata excised from T3 (which is wanting), and mounted on the verso of leaf A1. Pages 28 and 29 are numbered correctly, in contrast to the description of paging errors provided in Lisney. The "portr. by Persyn" mentioned in Hagen (but not in the other cited references) is not present.

SCNHRB copy has the name of a former owner[?] inscribed on the verso of the 2nd front free endpaper: Mr. Theodore Johnson; with ms. pencil notes on the verso of the 1st front free endpaper ("Edition limited to 150 copies") and the verso of leaf A1 ("I bought this of King").

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

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled mottled leather binding with marbled endpapers and edges; re-backed.