Thomas Hawkins’ fossil plates, 1840
Of course, many of us will recognise the frontispiece to Thomas Hawkins’ weirdish Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri. Gedolim Taninim, of Moses. Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth from 1840. But the wonderful plates of fossils at the back of the volume generally get far less attention than the archetypically hellish frame above.
This is a repost from pastworlds.posterous.com
