A natural history of water birds
by Thomas Bewick
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A natural history of water birds
1819, Printed and sold wholesale and retail, by W. Davison
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Watermark dated 1816 on UCLA copy.
Title vignette.
Vignettes on front and back covers.
An abridgment from The system of natural history by M. de Buffon (Alnwick : Davison, 1814), with illustrations by T. Bewick. Cf. Hugo, T. Bewick, (283) note.
First sentence: "The bittern is less than the heron, and is neither so voracious nor destructive."
One of 7 chapbooks issued by Davison as an abridgement of Buffon's "System of natural history," an itself abridged English translation of his "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière": Davison, 1814; the chapbooks dated by Tattersfield "around 1819."
The woodcuts have been attributed to Thomas Bewick and his workshop by Hugo (in Bewick collector, p. 109-110); Tattersfield claims nothing in the chapbooks to be by Bewick (in Thomas Bewick, v. 2, p. 935) naming as the probable engraver Isaac Nicholson, a former Bewick apprentice.
The 7 chapbooks sometimes issued together under title: A cabinet of natural history.
Hugo, T. Bewick, 288
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