A natural history of water birds /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Alnwick :
Printed and sold wholesale and retail, by W. Davison,
[ca. 1819]
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| Item Description: | 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 7 chapbooks sometimes issued together under title: A cabinet of natural history 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 Title vignette Vignettes on front and back covers Watermark dated 1816 on UCLA copy |
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| Physical Description: | [3], 4-36 p. : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 14 cm |