Natural History Cabinet, Beasts

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The frontispiece and title page spread for The Good Child’s Cabinet of Natural History, Embellished with 32 fine Engravings, vol. 1 Beasts, printed in London by John Wallis, 1801. Beasts is one of five miniature books contained inside the wooden box for Wallis's Elegant Present of Natural History, held at Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, QH48 .W214, copy 1.

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A leopard hiding in the bushes stalks a gazelle in this frontispiece for Beasts. The frontispiece works as an interlocutor gesture that connects book and world as educational spaces for "reading" nature.

  • type
    Image
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  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
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  • container title
    Wallis’s Elegant Present of Natural History (London: John Wallis, 1801).
  • credit
    Courtesy of Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
  • rights
    public domain