Les Genres Des Insectes De Linné; Constatés Par Divers Échantillons D'Insectes D'Angleterre, Copiés D'Après Nature. Par J. Barbut. [Epigraph]
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2852
Author
Variant Title
Genera Insectorum of Linnæus Exemplified By Various Specimens Of English Insects
Imprint
À Londres,: Imprimé Par Jacques Dixwell, Dans St. Martin's Lane; Et Se Vend Au Profit De L'Auteur Chez J. Sewell, Libraire, Dans Cornhill., M. DCC.LXXXI.
Physical Description
[ii], xvii, [iii], 371, [1], [xx] p., add. engr. t.-pl., 22 pl. (2 dble. and fold.); , 265 mm. (Quarto).
General Note
Plate 21 is unnumbered.
Contents
[Add. engr. t.-pl., t.-p.] - List Of Subscribers; Errata Et Desiderata - Preface - Index Alphabeticus Generum - [Text, with pl.] - Index; Directions to the Binder.
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece and most plates are signed as drawn by Jas. Barbut and engraved by Jas. Newton.
Each plate - including the title-plate but excluding plate [21] - carries the publisher's imprint of Barbut.
Each plate - including the title-plate but excluding plate [21] - carries the publisher's imprint of Barbut.
References
ESTC, T87004
Summary Note
The publication-date given on the title page as 1781 is also carried by plate 22 - 'Feby. 9; 1781'. The title-plate and all plates except plate [21], which is undated, carry the date of February 9 1780.
An English title is given on the added engraved title-plate: 'The Genera Insectorum of Linnæus Exemplified By Various Specimens Of English Insects drawn from Nature by James Barbut'. The text is in English and French throughout.
The last two plates are double and folding, and are the only ones which are not coloured.
An English title is given on the added engraved title-plate: 'The Genera Insectorum of Linnæus Exemplified By Various Specimens Of English Insects drawn from Nature by James Barbut'. The text is in English and French throughout.
The last two plates are double and folding, and are the only ones which are not coloured.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
Provenance
Presented by the author; gift acknowledged 5 November 1781 (RA Council Minutes I, 310).
Copy Note
Imperfect; wanting plate 10.
Binding Note
18th-century calf; rebacked in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'English Insects By Barbut', spine lettered '1781'.
Subject
Insects - Entomology - Animals - Great Britain - History
Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
Contributors
James Dixwell, printer
John Sewell, bookseller
James Newton, engraver
Carl Linnaeus
James Barbut, publisher, previous owner, donor
John Sewell, bookseller
James Newton, engraver
Carl Linnaeus
James Barbut, publisher, previous owner, donor
