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Volumes 1 and 2 from the set, still in vintage calf bindings, complete with 74 colorplate engravings and text. Members of all areas of the animal kingdom are pictured: birds; reptiles and amphibians; mammals, including monkeys and primates; butterflies and insects; shells, ocean invertebrates and sea creatures. Contemporary tree full calf covers. Spines in 6 compartments, titles on red leather tabs, volume numbers on green leather tabs, other compartments decorated with gilt stamped cross in sun insignia and flowers.
The volumes in the complete series were issued monthly from 1789 to 1813. The English naturalist, George Shaw, wrote the text for this work, and the plates were drawn and engraved by natural history artist, Frederick P. Nodder. After Nodder's death in 1800, his son finished the illustrations.
George Shaw was a medical practitioner and a lecturer in botany at Oxford University, a founder of the Linnean Society of London and Keeper of the Natural History Section of the British Museum. He published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several of the common Australian animals. He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany.
Frederick Polydore Nodder was a British natural history artist who illustrated both plants and animals. In addition to working on Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany, he also helped Joseph Banks prepare the Banks Florilegium and converted most of Sydney Parkinson's Australian plant drawings into paintings and helped engrave them for publication.
References:
Boese, Alex. "Duck Billed Platypus, The." The Museum of Hoaxes. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/platypus.html (27 September 2002).
"Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century: Intaglio Processes." University of Delaware Library. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/color/intag2.htm (27 September 2002).
"Frederick Polydore Nodder." Australian National Botanic Gardens, Biography. http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/nodder-frederick.html (27 September 2002).
McCarthy, G.J. "George Shaw." Bright Sparcs. Australian Science Archive Project: 20 August 2002. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000777b.htm (27 September 2002).
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