PETER BROWN (fl. 1766-91)
New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. London: B. White, 1776. 4° (295 x 230mm). Titles and text in English and French, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates after the author. Contemporary calf, gilt borders on panels, marbled edges (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740-1820), bookplate.
FIRST EDITION WITH FINE PLATES. The work is principally based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall and Thomas Pennant, but also includes plates after drawings by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. Forty-two of the plates depict birds, 5 mammals, 2 insects and one an amphibian. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, who had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology, whilst the work was published by Gilbert White's brother, Benjamin. Brown was also known as a flower painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1791. Nissen IVB, 151; Wood p.264; Zimmer pp101-102.
PETER BROWN (fl. 1766-91)
New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript birds, with a few quadrupeds, reptiles and insects. London: B. White, 1776. 4° (295 x 230mm). Titles and text in English and French, 50 hand-coloured engraved plates after the author. Contemporary calf, gilt borders on panels, marbled edges (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740-1820), bookplate.
FIRST EDITION WITH FINE PLATES. The work is principally based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall and Thomas Pennant, but also includes plates after drawings by the Ceylonese artist P.C. de Bevere in Java and Ceylon. Forty-two of the plates depict birds, 5 mammals, 2 insects and one an amphibian. Much of the text was supplied by Pennant, who had previously employed Brown for two of the plates in his British Zoology, whilst the work was published by Gilbert White's brother, Benjamin. Brown was also known as a flower painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1770 to 1791. Nissen IVB, 151; Wood p.264; Zimmer pp101-102.
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