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Manuscript notes to Pennant's natural history v.3

by: Tunstall, Marmaduke, 1743-1790, author, compiler

Publication date: 1780

Topics: Manuscripts, English -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal., Zoology -- Great Britain., Natural history -- Great Britain., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Rare Books/Special Collections - Blacker-Wood Manuscripts, Manuscripts, English -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal, Zoology -- Great Britain, Natural history -- Great Britain, Manuscripts, English, Natural history, Zoology, Great Britain, Québec -- Montréal

Publisher: [Wycliffe Hall] : Marmaduke Tunstall

Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English; Ancient Greek

4 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

4 volumes : 26 cm

Manuscript

Spine title

Date and place of publication from Wood

Original manuscript notes and additions to the zoological works of Thomas Pennant (British Zoology, 1776) with water-coloured drawings of birds, possibly with intent to publish a later, revised edition (none such published). Pages of original text are interleaved with leaves containing extensive manuscript annotations written in a clear, sloped hand

Includes 20 watercolours of birds attributed to Tunstall by Casey Wood

First 50 pages of volume 1 contain historical information on the production and provenance of the manuscript, as well as a biography of Tunstall himself, taken from George Fox's "Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum."

Bookplate of Edward Constable of Burton Constable on flyleaf of volume 1; inherited by Edward Constable of Burton Constable after Tunstall's death, as part of the inheritance of Wycliffe and the Constable estate; volume 1 also contains extensive excerpts from books describing the family history of Burton Constable, including mansucript excerpts and folded tables tipped in; manuscript continued to reside in the library at Wycliffe until the sale of the library in 1899

Sold as part of the sale of the Tixall Library by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, as lot 519, on November 7, 1899

Acquired by Casey Wood in London, May 31, 1922; annotated throughout in hand and typsecript, including inventories of illustrations laid in, by Casey Wood

Set bound in later brown goatskin with marbled paper over boards; five raised bands with title in gilt and ruled border in the compartments; marbled endpapers; edges untrimmed

Addeddate: 2019-03-26 21:02:02

Associated-names: Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942, former owner; Constable, Edward, former owner

Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_blackerwood_pennants-natural-history_QL255T91780z-v3-19511

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t8bh07q31

Note: Manuscript.
Spine title.
Date and place of publication from Wood.
Original manuscript notes and additions to the zoological works of Thomas Pennant (British Zoology, 1776) with water-coloured drawings of birds, possibly with intent to publish a later, revised edition (none such published). Pages of original text are interleaved with leaves containing extensive manuscript annotations written in a clear, sloped hand.
Includes 20 watercolours of birds attributed to Tunstall by Casey Wood.
First 50 pages of volume 1 contain historical information on the production and provenance of the manuscript, as well as a biography of Tunstall himself, taken from George Fox's "Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum."
v. 1.Quadrupeds --v. 2.Land birds -v. 3.Water birds --v. 4.Reptiles & fishes.
Bookplate of Edward Constable of Burton Constable on flyleaf of volume 1; inherited by Edward Constable of Burton Constable after Tunstall's death, as part of the inheritance of Wycliffe and the Constable estate; volume 1 also contains extensive excerpts from books describing the family history of Burton Constable, including mansucript excerpts and folded tables tipped in; manuscript continued to reside in the library at Wycliffe until the sale of the library in 1899.
Sold as part of the sale of the Tixall Library by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, as lot 519, on November 7, 1899.
Acquired by Casey Wood in London, May 31, 1922; annotated throughout in hand and typsecript, including inventories of illustrations laid in, by Casey Wood.
Set bound in later brown goatskin with marbled paper over boards; five raised bands with title in gilt and ruled border in the compartments; marbled endpapers; edges untrimmed.
Wood, C.A. Introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology,page 604