1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving vintage tin rattle Rerce in 1894

Rerce in 1894

2 3/4" across at opening

and which appears to have been finely carved from one piece of wood

which is at far right in the image of three sold together

1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving vintage tin rattle Rerce in 1894This just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical two looping knots of worm at top and bottom, and then one outstretched across the middle. The text underneath reads London, England Nov. 1790, by F. P Nodder & Co. No. 15 Brewer Street. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1770 c. 1800) was an English illustrator, engraver and painter, who illustrated George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany, which is where this bookplate came from, and