General zoology, or, Systematic natural history
By: by George Shaw ; with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath
Contributors: Stephens, James Francis, 1792-1853, author; Leach, William Elford, 1790-1836, editor; Heath, James, 1757-1834, engraver; Griffith, Mrs., engraver; Griffith, Moses, 1747-1819, engraver
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: 1800
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Zoology
Other titles: General zoology; Systematic natural history
Notes: Title and imprint vary.

Volume 14, part 2 lacks engraved title page, but has volume and part numbers on signature line.

Volume 8: Publication date on engraved title page: 1812; on letterpress title page: 1811. Volume 13: Publication date on engraved title page: 1825; on letterpress title page: 1826.

Volumes 1-8 by George Shaw; v. 9-14 by James Francis Stephens under the editorship of William Elford Leach.

The plates to v. 1-5 engraved by Mr. Heath (i.e. James Heath?), v. 6 jointly by Mr. Heath and Mrs. Griffith, v. 7-14 by Mrs. Griffith (title page for v. 9 has: Mrs. Griffiths). Nissen identifies engraver as Moses Griffith (1747-1819).

Each volume is in two parts, each with an engraved title page (except for v. 14, pt. 2) and an additional letterpress title page; the pagination and registers of second parts continue those of first parts, apart from v. 12-14, whose second parts have separate pagination and registers.

Includes indexes.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Table of contents: title: volume 1-2. Mammalia (1800-1801); title: volume 3. Amphibia (1802); title: volume 4-5. Pisces (1803-1804); title: volume 6. Insecta (1806); title: volume 7-14, part 1. Aves (1809-1826); title: volume 14, part 2. General index to the zoology by G. Shaw and J.F. Stephens (1826).