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090 $aQE381.G7$bS69X 1802
100 1 $aSowerby, James,$d1757-1822.
245 10 $aBritish mineralogy, or, Coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain /$cby James Sowerby ... (with assistance.).
246 3 $aColoured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by R. Taylor and Co., Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-street, and sold by the author, J. Sowerby, at No. 2, Mead Place, Lambeth; and by White, Fleet-street; Symonds, Pater-noster-row; and all other booksellers,$cMDCCCIV-MDCCCXVII [i.e. 1802-1817]
300 $a5 v., 550 leaves of plates :$bcol. ill. (copper-plate engravings) ;$c24 cm.
500 $aVol. 5 printed by Arding and Merrett.
500 $aIssued in parts, beginning in 1802 (approximate dates of publication based on the dates that are engraved on most of the plates). According to the Natural History Museum (U.K.) catalog record for this publication, "the text at first was not always issued with the illustrations." For a list of dates of issue for parts numbered I through LXXVIII (Nov. 1, 1802-Nov. 1, 1813), see L.H. Conklin, "James Sowerby: his publications and collections," in Mineral books, edited by W.E. Wilson (Tucson : the Mineral record, 1995), p. 103-104. According to Conklin, "if the usual format was adhered to, six or seven more parts were issued after no. 77, but the publication schedule apparently slowed down significantly. The work concluded with plate DL (550) in 1817."
500 $aOriginally sold by subscription. Once all parts were produced, the publication was also sold in completed sets.
500 $aThe publisher provided title pages for binding the set into 5 volumes, with the individual title pages dated as follows: v. 1: 1804; v. 2: 1806; v. 3: 1809; v. 4: 1811; v. 5: 1817.
500 $aAccording to Conklin, the phrase "(with assistance)" on t.p. is assumed to refer to help from Sowerby's sons, James De Carle and George Brettingham Sowerby.
500 $aThe plates are numbered continously throughout the five volumes.
500 $aThe plates are copper-plate engravings in black or colored ink, finished with hand-watercoloring.
500 $aErrors in numeration: Plate 421 is misnumbered 221 in some copies (the plate number is correct in the Cullman Library copy); Plate 413 and 415 have their numbers interchanged.
500 $a"As shown by a copy of the first volume in the original wrappers, and by the dates on the plates throughout, the first part of this work was issued 1 Nov., 1802 and subsequent parts up to 1 Oct., 1805, appeared on the first of each month. No part seems to have been issued for November of that year, and publication then proceeded on alternate months beginning with February in 1806, with January in 1807, and with February again for the years 1808 to 1811. The issue then became irregular, parts appeared in February, April, June and August 1812, and in February, July, September and November 1813."--Wellcome Library record, viewed in Copac online catalog.
500 $aEach volume has its own index. In addition, v. 5 contains a "Systematic index to British mineralogy" (v. 5, p. [2]-[9], 4th group) and an "Index to British mineralogy" (v. 5, p. [10]-[24], 4th group).
500 $aEach volume contains a list of errata at the end of the text.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
510 4 $aSchuh, C. Mineralogy & crystallography,$c5076
510 4 $aBM (Nat. Hist.)$cv. 5, p. 1982
541 $aDieter Schierenberg BV;$cpurchase;$d09/2012;$h$8830.00.
590 $aSCNHRB copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.
590 $aSCNHRB copy imperfect: plates 101 and 230, and pages 57-58 of v. 3, are wanting.
590 $aSCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. (v. 2, only) Westdean Library, 1813; 2. (v. 4, only; armorial) John W. Trist, F.S.A., F.S.I., with motto: Nec triste nec trepide; 3. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.
590 $aSCNHRB copy has some short newsclippings on miscellaneous topics (such as animal behavior), from 1911 and 1912, mounted on the back paste-down endpaper of v. 4.
590 $aSCNHRB copy has contemporary gilt-tooled tree-stained full leather bindings with marbled endpapers. Volumes 2 and 4 are re-backed. The bindings, while apparently dating from the first half of the 19th century and similar in materials used, are not uniform in gilt-tooling, tree-staining, or endpapers, and probably do not all share the same provenance.
650 0 $aMineralogy$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aPrecious stones.
650 0 $aGeology$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aMineralogy$vEncyclopedias.
700 1 $aSowerby, George Brettingham,$d1788-1854.
700 1 $aSowerby, James de Carle,$d1787-1871.
710 2 $aRichard Taylor and Co.,$eprinter.
710 2 $aArding and Merrett,$eprinter.
710 2 $aWestdean Library,$eformer owner.$5DSI
710 2 $aTrist, John W.,$eformer owner.$5DSI
752 $aGreat Britain$bEngland$dLondon.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSowerby, James, 1757-1822.$tBritish mineralogy.$dLondon, Printed by R. Taylor and Co., 1804-17$w(OCoLC)647587705
949 $e5 vols
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 1$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 2$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 3$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 4$nlc$trare
949 $lscnh$gscnhrb$dv. 5$nlc$trare