SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) brass shoe form I really love the pitch

I really love the pitch printed on the front of the instructions: "These dominoes are the best and cheapest in the world

The name of the bird reflects the tendency of most species to construct elaborate pear-shaped nests--woven from soft plant materials as well as wool

The three-ring logo was so successful that it was instantly recognizable throughout the eastern United States where Ballantine was sold

and polished right up with no effort

good overall condition

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) brass shoe form I really love the pitchThis feels completely otherworldly to me and I can't stop looking at it. The copperplate engraving is by Fredrick Nodder, from George Shaw's renowned The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789 1813; this plate c. 1790) but it is the hand coloring that makes this one especially special, and singular, here not one but two iterations of applied watercolor. I know from the dealer I purchased this from that the volume it came from featured annotated endpapers