Eleazer Albin (1713-1759)

Biography:  Albin was a well known naturalist and painter, who published the first folio of British birds, with hand-colored plates. His wife and daughters assisted in the creation of the  plate illustrations.

Volume Title:
A natural history of English insects : illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven from the life: and (for those who desire it) / exactly coloured by the author Eleazer Albin.
by Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759.
London : Printed for the author, 1720.