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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.
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