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JARDINE, William (1784-1843), editor. The Naturalist’s Library. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1836, 1843.
40 volumes, 8vo (165 x 98mm). Frontispieces, additional engraved title-pages with vignettes, OVER 1200 MOSTLY HAND-COLORED ENGRAVED PLATES. Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, marbled sides, endpapers and edges (light rubbing at corners, some to extreme ends of spines).
A handsome mixed issue set, with only one outlier being from the 1836 issue. Jardine was a Scottish naturalist who studied ornithology, ichthyology, botany and geology. He was the first to coin the term ichnology and the first to write a book on the subject. He was also known for having the finest natural history museum and library in Britain at the time. His greatest achievement however was making natural history available to all facets of Victorian society through editing The Naturalist’s Library which proved popular and accessible. Nissen ZBI 4708; Wood 405; Zimmer 326.