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John Blackwall - Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland 1864.
This hand-coloured lithograph is from A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland by John Blackwall. First edition published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke, Piccadilly London1864.
John Blackwall (1790 1881) was an English naturalist with a particular interest in spiders. He published A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, which included accounts of 304 species and gave the first adequate descriptions of British spiders.
Ten of the plates included were by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and twelve were by the Irish naturalist Robert Templeton and lithographed by Tuffen West.
Size: 10.25in x 14in (26cm x 36cm) .
The print is in excellent condition - please inspect the image carefully.
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