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Common Pouched Mouse, Australian Dunnart, Antechinus marsupial mouse c1896

Common Pouched Mouse, Australian Dunnart, Antechinus marsupial mouse c1896

by Lydekker, Richard

Antique print of Common Pouched Mouse, Australian marsupial.

Colour-printed c1896 by Wyman & Sons Ltd for A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata by Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., Vice-President of the Geological Society, etc., etc., as part of (Edward) Lloyd's Natural History, edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, L.L.D., F.L.S., &c.

Wyman & Sons coloured the steel plates engraved and published by William Home Lizars (1788-1859) c1841 for (Sir William) Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library. In the original publication each of the fine steel engraved portraits of marsupials by Lizars was highlighted by hand-colour, against an uncoloured habitat background.

Page size is 120 x 180mm (4 3/4 x 7 inches)

Stock Number: apRLm29Price: $50.00

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