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Perry's Arcana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, George, 1771-1823.
- Standardized Title:
- Arcana
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history illustration.
- Animals--Pictorial works.
- Animals.
- Plants--Pictorial works.
- Plants.
- Natural history illustrators--Great Britain.
- Natural history illustrators.
- Perry, George, 1771-1823.
- Perry, George.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (577 p.)
- Edition:
- A facsimile ed. / with a collation and explanatory essay by Richard E. Petit.
- Other Title:
- Arcana
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From 1810 to 1811, the English stonemason and amateur naturalist George Perry published a lavishly illustrated magazine on natural history. The Arcana or Museum of Nature ran to 22 monthly parts, with 84 extraordinary hand-colored plates and over 300 text pages describing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, echinoderms, insects, trilobites and plants, alongside travelogues from far-off lands. It presented the first published illustration of the koala and many new genera and species, but astonishingly was then largely forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Perry's work was deliberat
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Paul Callomon
- Perry's Arcana: Collation and Systematic Review
- Introduction
- Date and Format
- Title Page―Introduction
- Dedication
- Covers
- Collation
- Price
- Rarity
- Plates, Artists, and Engravers
- Watermarks
- Publisher, Printer, and "Index
- Sources
- Text
- Taxa
- Acknowledgments
- Literature Cited
- Perry's Arcana: Facsimile Edition
- Reader's Guide to Perry's Arcana
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published in monthy installments, under the title Arcana, or, The museum of natural history. London : Printed by G. Smeeton for James Stratford. 1810-1811.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612310966
- 9781282310964
- 1282310968
- 9781439901977
- 143990197X
- OCLC:
- 489150722
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