These rare fish prints with recent fine handcolouring, are from the Pisces volumes of George Shaw’s General Zoology, published from 1800 – 1820
The steel engravings offered here are mainly from the first
fish edition of 1803/4
Dr. Shaw (1751-1813) was a Fellow of the Royal Society, co-founder of the Linnean Society and a zoologist and keeper of the natural history department at the British Museum in London
These striking illustrations, copied almost entirely from Bloch and Lacépède's great works on Fishes, were engraved principally by James Heath, an associate of the Royal Academy and royal engraver to King George III in 1794.
(Ref. Dean Bibl of Fishes, vol. II p. 441; Pietsch, 1995, p. 166,7,8)
(water marks on not on original material)
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