The natural history of British insects
Subtitle: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, œconomy, &c. : together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens
By: by E. Donovan
Contributors: Thordarson Collection
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Insects; Pictorial works; Life cycles
Other titles: British insects; Donovan's British insects; Natural history of British insects :
Notes: The contents of the first 10 volumes were published in monthly numbers.

Volume 1 published in 1792 (also reset in 1802), volume 2 in 1793 (also subsequently reset), volume 3 in 1794, volume 4 in 1795, volume 5 in 1796, volume 6 in 1797, volume 7 in 1798, volume 8 in 1799, volume 9 in 1800, volume 10 in 1801, volume 11 in 1806, volume 12 in 1807, volume 13 in 1808, volume 14 in 1810, volume 15 in 1811, volume 16 in 1813.

Volume 8 is "printed by D. Bye and H. Law" ; volumes 9-10 "printed by Bye and Law."

Volumes 11-16 were published 1806-1813.

Volumes 11, 13-16 have imprint: London : Printed for the author, and F., C. and J. Rivington.

Plates are hand-colored.

Includes indexes.

Includes index.

"Errata."--Volumes 5 and 6, end pages.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.