num_pages: 40
description: The Book of the Great Sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri... Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth. With Thirty Plates Copied from Skeletons in the Author's Collection of Fossil Organic Remains, (Deposited in the British Museum)Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889), a fellow of the Geological Society, formed two important collections of ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs from Jurassic rocks in the Somerset area in which he lived, selling both to the British Museum. The present work, dedicated to William Buckland, includes fine lithographed plates of some of the collection, and a mezzotint frontispiece by John Martin "of battling sea-saurians [which] is the classic expression of fossil saurians' impact on the Romantic imagination".
language: English
title: The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri
publisher: London, William Pickering