Lot 12541: J Blackwall - Hand coloured lithograph of Spiders by Tuffen West 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)
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