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<dl><dd>Added half title for North's essay: A discourse of fish and fish-ponds</dd>
<dd>"Price, in boards, one guinea and a half, coloured"--Half title</dd>
<dd>The plates (most of which have legends in Latin, English and French) are dated 1735 to 1741</dd>
<dd>This book appears to have been a publisher's venture, and consists of a series of 18 "remainder" plates by Eleazar Albin, Elizabeth Albin, and Fortin Albin, to which text has been written at some period posterior to 1774 (as evidenced by citation of the "Gizzard Trout" on p.30), and consequently not by Eleazar Albin ; plus a reprint of North's "Discourse"</dd>
<dd>Woodcut tail-pieces</dd>
<dd>Numbers 33-36 repeated in paging</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy (39088013490354) imperfect: lacking one of the plates</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has uncolored plates</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has pencilled bibliographical notes, signed C. Davies Sherborne Apr. 1904</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum May 18 1904 [ms. acc. no.] 188819</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy quarter bound in recent taupe goatskin and paste-paper boards, uncut, leaves mounted on hinges</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Fishes</div>
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<dl><dd>Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759</dd>
<dd>North, Roger, 1653-1734. Discourse of fish and fish-ponds</dd>
<dd>Albin, Elizabeth</dd>
<dd>Sherborn, Charles Davies, 1861-1942, former owner. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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