Tookey (James) & Ibbetson (Julius Caesar, illustrator) Selections from Animated Nature

Tookey (James) & Ibbetson (Julius Caesar, illustrator)

Selections from Animated Nature; consisting of highly-finished engravings of quadrupeds…,

24 engraved plates including frontispiece, tissue guards, intermittent spotting, plates and text taken from the ‘Cabinet of Quadrupeds’ (published by Darton and Harvey), bookplate of Herbert George Adams to front pastedown, ink gift inscription to him ‘from M. W. M.’ to front flyleaf, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn, rebacked preserving spine, William Lewis, Cornhill, c. 1805 § Pennant (Thomas) History of Quadrupeds, 2 vol., first edition thus, engraved pictorial titles and 52 plates, Z3 and 3C4 torn, a few further short tears, spotting and some staining throughout, [ESTC T113535], modern half calf gilt, 1781; 4to (3)

***Copac lists only one copy of the first item, in the Natural History Museum Library.