3V William Bingley ANIMAL BIOGRAPHY 1803 Complete Set Decorative Binding Animal Creation Linnaeus Natural History Quadrupeds Amphibious Animals Fishes Insects Worms Birds

Title: Animal Biography; Or, Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy, of the Animal Creation, Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus
Author: William Bingeley - William Bingley was an English cleric, naturalist and writer. Bingley was a prolific writer, and several of his works were popular. His Tour Round North Wales, the result of his college vacation of 1798, was published in 1800 in two volumes. He revisited the district in 1801, and in 1804 issued North Wales ... delineated from two excursions. A second edition appeared in 1814, and a third, with corrections and additions by his son, William Richard Bingley, in 1839. As a companion to these works there appeared a volume entitled Sixty of the most admired Welsh Airs, collected by W. Bingley, arranged for the piano by William Russell in 1803, and again in 1810.

One of the most popular of Bingley's compilation was Animal Biography (1802), on natural history. The sixth edition appeared in 1824, and the work was translated into several European languages. A related volume Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, appeared in 1809. His Practical Introduction to Botany was published in 1817, and republished after the author's death in 1827. In 1814 he drew up a volume on Animated Nature, and two years later he compiled a work on Useful Knowledge, an account of the various productions of nature, mineral, vegetable, and animal, frequently reissued with the seventh edition appearing in 1862.

One set of Bingley's works was composed of "biographical conversations"; he narrated the lives of 'British characters,' 'eminent voyagers,' 'celebrated travellers,' and 'Roman characters.' Another consisted of condensed accounts "from modern writers" of Africa, South America, North America, South Europe, North Europe, and Asia, in six volumes appearing between 1819 and 1822. They were reproduced with a general title-page of Modern Travels.
Publisher: Printed for R. Phillips by J. Adlard
City: London
Year: 1803
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 3 Full Set: Yes
Width: 5.25" Height: 8.5"
Book Details: Complete in three volumes, this antique set is decoratively bound in marbled paper and leather, with gilt lettering and tooling to the spines. From the preface: “The principal intention of the work, is to induce a taste for the study of Natural History; and, by confining my remarks almost exclusively to the manners of the animals, to put such of my readers, as think the subject worth attention, into a train for looking more deeply into it than any books can possibly lead them, and to point out to them the mode of making observations for themselves in the grand volume of Nature, that lays always open to their perusal. To the female reader I must remark, that every indelicate subject is scrupulously excluded. The dangerous tendency of the writings of the Comte de Buffon, and a few others, is too generally known to render any further apology for the liberty necessary.â€
Condition / Notes: These handsomely bound volumes display some indications of age and wear. The front boards of volumes I & II are detached; the boards of volume III are partially detached. There is some indication that these volumes have been exposed to heat and moisture. The text blocks remain sound. Text is clear and legible through mild to moderate age toning/foxing.

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