Extracted from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, probably from the 4th ed. (1810).
Article tentatively attributed to William Elford Leach and Thomas Brown. See A.S. Kennard and B.B. Woodward, Synonymy of the British non-marine mollusca (1926), pp. 370, 377.
The leaves of plates are numbered CLII-CLV and are signed by the engraver A. Bell.
Text printed in double columns.
Side-notes.
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SCNHRB copy 39088008862336 has pencilled ms. notes from front endpapers [by S.S. Berry?]: "Encyclo. Brit. 4th edit. 1810. This article appears to be an excerpt from Encyc. Brit., ed. 4, 1810. This should be compared w. Encyc. Brit., ed. 6, v. 6, 1823, as cited by Kennard & Woodward, 1926 : 370, 377. Note discrepancy in the terminal pagination. The latter authors write, 'possibly begun by Leach and finished by [Capt. Thomas] Brown.' Might not Leach have written this earlier article as well?"
SCNHRB copy has the name of bookseller Wheldon & Wesley pencilled in on back paste-down endpaper.
SCNHRB copy has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California. Added in ms. ink: 8.IX.1958.
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper.
SCNHRB copy has an old marbled paperboard binding with burgundy book-cloth on spine.
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Contents:
Introduction -- Chap. I. History of conchology -- Chap. II. Of the animals which inhabit shells -- Chap. III. Of the terms which are employed in describing shells -- Chap. IV. Classification of shells -- Chap. V. Of the constituent parts of shells, &c. -- Chap. VI. Of the habitation of testaceous animals, methods of fishing, collecting, &c. -- Explanation of plates -- Index -- Plates
