Mawe, J.
Wodarch's introduction to the study of conchology: describing the orders, genera, and species of shells: with observations on the nature and properties of the animals; and directions for collecting, preserving, and cleaning shells. Fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Mawe, 1832. 12mo (18.2 x 10.6 cm). xii, 149 pp.; full-colour frontispiece and six hand-coloured engraved plates with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary dark green diced morocco; spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, and green morocco label with gilt title. Boards with gilt-lined and blind-tooled borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled.
This work was initially written by Charles Wodarch (years of birth and death unknown) and published by John Mawe in 1820 (with four plates), and went through several reprints up to 1827. The British explorer and malacologist John Mawe (1764-1829) subsequently corrected and expanded it several times, this being the final - and least common - edition, published after Mawe's death. Provenance: dedication to "Jane" in an old hand, dated September 23 1839; inscribed by E. G. Wilkins, Leyton, dated September 24th [19]27. A sumptuously bound copy. Nissen ZBI, 4437 [under Wodarch].
