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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
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A history of British Birds: Volume I: History and description of land birds
by Bewick, Thomas Bewick
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The Peacock from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds Volume 1: Land Birds.
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Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.
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A History of British Birds Vol. I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds [with] Vol II. Water Birds.
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Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by…
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A History of British Birds, Volume 2: Water Birds
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Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.. Facsimile. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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A History of British Birds; Volume 1
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A History of British Birds. Volume II. Water Birds. 1832
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R E Bewick; Longman & Co. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. 1832. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. .
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A History Of British Birds Volume I, Containing The History & Description Of Land Birds. Volume II, Containing The History & Description Of Water Birds.
by Bewick, Thomas (Jenny Uglow intro)
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Folio Society, London 2010 (reprinting the 1826 edition, with minor emendations). 23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.
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A History of British Birds Vol 1: Land Birds
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light spotting to reading edge. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket has some rubbing, sunning to back and staining to bottom of rear spine. Spine has light fading. Some creasing and light fraying to top edge of jacket.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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A History of British Birds Vol. I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds
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Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847 Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, "...contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".
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A History of British Birds [2 volume set]
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London: Folio Society, 2010. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume set in slipcase. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382pp, 431pp. Bound into 1/4 teal leather with marble covers. Divided into two volumes "Land Birds" and "Water Birds". Text based on that of the 1826 edition.
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. and Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. Both unbound in solander boxes
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Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.
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A History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T Bewick Volume II Containing the History and Description of Water Birds Plus a Supplement to the History of British Water Birds
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Newcastle: Edward Walker. Very Good. 1821. Hardcover. 360pp + 44pp supplement, illustrated throughout marbled endpapers, bound in full calf, gilt lining to covers gilt lettering to spine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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A history of British birds Volume II Containing the history and description of water birds./ the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick
by Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)
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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick: sold by him, and Longman and Co. London , 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in half leather over marble boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Partial spine band loosely inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. Physical description: 361 pages. Subjects: Birds Great Britain. Birds history. Ornithology.
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A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS THE FIGURES ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY T. BEWICK. VOL. 1 CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LAND BIRDS
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Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, for Belby & Bewick. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound in tan half calf, maroon Morocco label with gilt titles, marbled boards, 117 figures of birds of which 44 have been hand colored, a lovely clean, tight copy. Volume one of a two volume set. ; 8" x 6.5"; 355 pages .
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A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS: VOLUME 2, PLUS SUPPLEMENT
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NEWCASTLE, WALKER, 1805. VOL. 2 IS THE HISTORY OF WATER BIRDS. REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, AEG, GILT TITLE. pp (xxii), 400. SOME RUBBING TO THE BOARDS EDGES. A VERY NICE, CLEAN COPY. NUMEROUS WOODCUTS BY BEWICK..
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3 Volumes of Works by Thomas Bewick [contains: 'A History of British Birds' in 2 volumes and 'A General History of Quadrupeds' in 1 volume]
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, 'A History of British Birds' contains Vol.I containing the History and Description of Land Birds; Vol.II containing the History and Description of Water Birds; illustrated title pages, wood engravings of the birds throughout both volumes along side numerous other vignettes, 'A General History of Quadrupeds' contains an Illustrated title page and black and white wood engravings of mammals throughout
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A History of British Birds (2 Vols; Vol 1 Land Birds, Vol 2 Water Birds)
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Newcastle: Longman & Co, 1826. 2 Vols. Half green leather over green cloth. Bindings tight, spines straight, corners solid. Five raised bands on spines. Gilt titles on red spine labels for each volume. Gilt page ends. Marbled endpapers. Slight foxing to preliminary pages, but text block remains clean. Previous owner's bookplate (Lavra Mary Forster) on front paste down of each book. Forster was the aunt of the writer E.M. Forster and a person of some note in her own right. She was acquainted with the designer William Morris and created blind-tooled and stamped leather work for books she owned. Some of her designs appeared as part of the Arts and Crafts Exhibitions Society's 1889 exhibit. She was also a lifelong friend and frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin's eldest daughter, Henrietta. The sixth edition of this title is significant for Bewick's substantial rewriting of portions of the previous editions. He opted for a more scientific presentation, and he added new birds to the…
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