- 1990 First Edition. 128 pages
- Published by Collins & Brown Ltd, London.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards. Large book - approx 36cm long x 26 cm wide.
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.
60 colour plates. Indexed.
The second of a series on Great Natural History Prints, this selection of rare plates illustrates the bewildering array of sizes, shapes and colours of fish and their astonishing beauty that caught the imagination of artists, explorers and scientists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
These lavishly illustrated fish plates, which range from the Goldfish to the extraordinary Trunkfish, are still important both for the scientific study of fish and as priceless collectors' items.
Providing a kaleidoscopic view of the specialised, difficult and fascinating art of fish illustration, this voulme includes a substantial selection of pictures from every important fish book published between 1719 and 1910 that contained coloured plates.
Arraned chronologically the selection follows the progression of the fish illustrator over a period of two centuries.
Presented here is an intoxicating pictorial feast, a signficant part of the rich artistic legacy from an age which respected the work of skilled artists, engraves and printers.
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