Beautiful Shells Publisher / Powerhouse Publishing After his demise at the

After his demise at the age of 52 in 1973

complete with Aussie phrase

dyers’ notebooks

has been central to her search for

Beautiful Shells Publisher / Powerhouse Publishing After his demise at theIn 1811, architect, stone mason and shell obsessive George Perry published a lavishly illustrated volume, his Conchology or the Natural History of Shells, featuring 348 beautifully illustrated mollusc shells with descriptions of species, many of which were new to science. Despite the effort that went into producing the work, at a time when conchophilia, or shell fancying, was at its height, Perrys Conchology all but disappeared without a trace in the