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  <dc:title>Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of
molluscous animals /</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Reeve, Lovell, 1814-1865.</dc:creator>
  <dc:contributor>Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham),
1812-1884.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham), 1812-1884,
ill.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Taylor, John Edward, fl. 1840-1855,
printer.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Brooks, Vincent, 1815?-1885, printer of
plates.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Reeve, Frederic, printer of
plates.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former
owner.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, former
owner.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Savill, Edwards and Co.,
printer.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Spottiswoode &amp; Co.,
printer.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Reeve Benham &amp; Reeve, printer of
plates.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Vincent Brooks, Day &amp; Son, printer of
plates.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>text</dc:type>
  <dc:publisher>London : Reeve, Brothers,</dc:publisher>
  <dc:date>1843-1878.</dc:date>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:description>20 v. : 29 cm.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Issued in parts.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Imprint varies.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>G.B. Sowerby took over the project after Reeve's
death, beginning with the monograph of the genus Pyramidella (in v. 15).
See BM (Nat. hist.) online catalog record for this ed., and the prefatory
letter by Reeve's widow inserted at the front of v. 20, for details.
Sowerby was also the illustrator and, in some cases, the lithographer, for
this publication.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>The individual monographs which make up this set
have special half-titles.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Each plate is accompanied by a leaf of letterpress
description giving the month and year of issue.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Printers of the text include John Edward Taylor;
Savill, Edwards and Co.; and Spottiswoode and Co. Printers of the plates
include Vincent Brooks; Frederic Reeve; Reeve &amp; Nichols; Reeve,
Benham &amp; Reeve; and Vincent Brooks Day &amp;
Son.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Includes bibliographical references and
indexes.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>v. 1. Conus ... -- v. 2. Corbula ... -- v. 3. Murex
... -- v. 4. Chama ... -- v. 5. Bulimus ... -- v. 6. Voluta ... -- v. 7.
Helix -- v. 8. Pecten ... -- v. 9. Spondylus ... -- v. 10. Ampullaria ...
-- v. 11. Pinna ... -- v. 12. Argonauta ... -- v. 13. Tenebratula ... -- v.
14. Halia ... -- v. 15. Solarium ... -- v. 16. Unio ... -- v. 17. Anodon
... -- v. 18. Philine ... -- v. 19. Helicina ... -- v. 20. Solemya
....</dc:description>
  <dc:description>extracted picklist 20081216</dc:description>
  <dc:subject>Mollusks.</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Shells.</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Mollusks -- Pictorial works.</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Shells -- Pictorial works.</dc:subject>
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