Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) The Birds of Jamaica... assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., of Spanish-Town. London: S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley for John van Voorst, 1847. 12° (192 x 125mm). Half-title, errata-slip, 2pp. advertisements at back. (Light browning to margins, small tears to outer blank margins of signature C.) Original cloth (extremities rubbed, affected by damp, spine discoloured). Provenance : Wm. Floyer Cornish (inscription dated 1847). [ With :] Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica. London: John van Voorst, 1849. Large 8° (268 x 182mm). Letterpress title (verso blank), 'advertisement' (1p.) with 'contents' list on verso. 52 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Gosse, printed by Reeve, Benham and Reeve. (Some old dampstaining to text leaves and first six plates, slight cockling to margins of other leaves.) Contemporary calf, covers with single gilt fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, black morocco lettering-piece in the second (extremities rubbed, joints worn, the upper slightly split). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK BY 'ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ... POPULARISERS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN' (Dance). All of the major reference works (with the exception of Nissen) treat the two volumes as separate works, and despite their obvious links - the plate captions include page references to the companion volume of text - the two works are seldom found together. Gosse spent 18 months in Jamaica from October 1844 to July 1846 with a commission to collect undescribed birds and insects. On his return to Britain the volume of text was published in early 1847, based both on his own observations and the notes of Richard Hill, a resident ornithologist. The plate volume, considered as a companion work, was published in 1849 and although Gosse planned that the work should include figures of each species described in the Birds of Jamaica , the 'advertisement' states that: 'it was subsequently judged desirable to modify this plan, by omitting such species as had been well figured before, in works easily available to the British public.' In consequence the 52 plates eventually chosen for Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica focus on new and rare species, and are continuously but not successively numbered from 2 through to 120. BM(NH) II, p.697; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.99; Nissen IVB 367; Wood p.363; Zimmer p.250. (2)
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) The Birds of Jamaica... assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., of Spanish-Town. London: S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley for John van Voorst, 1847. 12° (192 x 125mm). Half-title, errata-slip, 2pp. advertisements at back. (Light browning to margins, small tears to outer blank margins of signature C.) Original cloth (extremities rubbed, affected by damp, spine discoloured). Provenance : Wm. Floyer Cornish (inscription dated 1847). [ With :] Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica. London: John van Voorst, 1849. Large 8° (268 x 182mm). Letterpress title (verso blank), 'advertisement' (1p.) with 'contents' list on verso. 52 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Gosse, printed by Reeve, Benham and Reeve. (Some old dampstaining to text leaves and first six plates, slight cockling to margins of other leaves.) Contemporary calf, covers with single gilt fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, black morocco lettering-piece in the second (extremities rubbed, joints worn, the upper slightly split). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE WORK BY 'ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ... POPULARISERS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN' (Dance). All of the major reference works (with the exception of Nissen) treat the two volumes as separate works, and despite their obvious links - the plate captions include page references to the companion volume of text - the two works are seldom found together. Gosse spent 18 months in Jamaica from October 1844 to July 1846 with a commission to collect undescribed birds and insects. On his return to Britain the volume of text was published in early 1847, based both on his own observations and the notes of Richard Hill, a resident ornithologist. The plate volume, considered as a companion work, was published in 1849 and although Gosse planned that the work should include figures of each species described in the Birds of Jamaica , the 'advertisement' states that: 'it was subsequently judged desirable to modify this plan, by omitting such species as had been well figured before, in works easily available to the British public.' In consequence the 52 plates eventually chosen for Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica focus on new and rare species, and are continuously but not successively numbered from 2 through to 120. BM(NH) II, p.697; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.99; Nissen IVB 367; Wood p.363; Zimmer p.250. (2)
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