George Shaw and Frederick P. Nodder | The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1790, 14 (of 24) vols, green half morocco

George Shaw and Frederick P. Nodder

The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature. London: Nodder & Co., 1790

14 (of 24) volumes only, 8vo (235 x 140mm.), plain engraved dedication in volume one, 558 hand-coloured plates, contemporary green half morocco, red morocco labels in second and third compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, some light spotting, spines somewhat faded, extremities slightly rubbed

Shaw, who served as Keeper of the Collections at the British Museum, produced one of the finest "small sets" of British natural history.

LITERATURE:

Anker 195; McGill/Wood, pp. 565-6; Nissen BBI 1838; Nissen IVB 869

PROVENANCE:

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), of Culford, Suffolk, British General serving in the American War of Independence and later the third Mysore War, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Governer General and Commander-in-Chief in India, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns