The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick, esq. ... : in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable [i.e. suitable] to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVIII copper plates
Francis Willughby's Ornithology, published in London in 1678 by John Martyn and edited with John Ray, is a natural history of birds arranged by method and illustrated with copper-plate engravings for naturalists and collectors. The plates show single birds in profile, standing or perched, with small labelled captions and occasional sprigs of foliage, offering a designer clean, precise linework and a dry, scientific order of specimens.
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