The fossil starfish, echini, shells, insects, amphibia, mammalia, &c
This 1811 work by James Parkinson, printed by Whittingham and Rowland for London publishers Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, is a natural history catalogue of fossils, with plates of starfish, sea urchins, shells and other organisms for collectors and naturalists. The plates are engraved and hand-tinted in soft grey and buff washes, showing ammonite-like coiled shells, ribbed bivalves and spined echinoid fossils set against cream paper, with the tonal shading a designer could borrow for vintage scientific diagrams.
