Thomas Bewick: A History of British Birds, 1809 - handsome Regency binding. £695 · Type & Forme THE FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION OF BRITISH BIRDS, PRINTED ON A THIN PAPERWHICH ‘TOOK AN EXCELLENT IMPRESSION FROM THE BLOCK’, IN A HANDSOME REGENCY BINDING BEWICK, Thomas. A History of British Birds … …

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Thomas Bewick, 1790. From: “A General History of Quadrupeds.”

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'Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds Which Pass the Summer in the British Islands' by James Edmund Harting, with engravings by Thomas Bewick. 2nd ed. London: Bickers, 1877.

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In about 1980, I was given these prints—taken off the original #ThomasBewick woodblocks.

Can anyone please tell me if they were printed in a book, or books, and which one/ones (not Select Fables or History of Quadrupeds, I believe)?

Thank you!
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Printed engravers illustration of a Curlew in black with part of a poem about Curlews printed on off white/buff colour paper.

Here's a lovely #thomasbewick Curlew or Whaup, as it's known in Scotland, for #worldcurlewday We are lucky to have about 40 or so #curlews enjoying the fields behind us at Frost Pocket, they loop round from field to shore wheeping all the way. #letterpress #britishbirds #printersblock #poetry

From History of British Birds, vol.1.

Saturday #morningread: #ThomasBewick
‘This bird arrives with the Redstart, Black-cap & c. In the spring…’.

Before family research did you know you were related to #ThomasBewick who has a bird named after him Bewick Swan ?

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