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A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick [1753-1828] is best known for his ‘History of British Birds’, which is admired today mainly for its wood engravings, especially the small, sharply observed, and often humorous vignettes known as tail-pieces. He is credited with popularizing, a technical innovation in the printing of illustrations using wood. He adopted metal-engraving tools to cut hard boxwood across the grain, producing printing blocks that could be integrated with metal type, but were much more durable than traditional woodcuts. The result was high quality illustration at a low price. [Wikipedia].

Two volumes. Volume I contains the history and description of land birds; Volume II contains the history and description of water birds.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2010
• Quarter-bound in Blue Leather With Paper Sides Hardback, pp
• With 500 original illustrations by Thomas Bewick.
• Size 230 x 145mm, 2.5kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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