History of British birds
By: the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick .
Contributors: Beilby, Ralph, 1744-1817
Publisher: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick; sold by them, and G.G. and J. Robinson, London
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Other titles: Bewick's birds
Notes: Spine title: Bewick's birds

Vol. I: 2d edition, actually issued in 1798. Cf. S. Roscoe, Bewick bibl., p. 52-59 for points

Text of the first volume by Ralph Beilby, amended by Bewick. The second by Bewick

Signatures: (v.1) pi1 ap8sbp8-1s(-b8, half-title, now pi1)B-Yp8s; (v.2) ap2sb-cp4sB-3Dp4s

ESTC N033392

Vol. I: Roscoe 15d; vol. II: Roscoe 17d, Variant F

Spec Collection copy extensively annotated by original owner, apparently an ornithologist, who has also had bound in at the beginning of v. 1 6 p. of illustrated manuscript titled An explanation of the technical terms used in this work, and one leaf in each volume on which is a sketch of a bird not illustrated by Bewick. In original diced calf boards, rebacked
Table of contents: value: I. Containing the history and description of land birds.; value: II. Containing the history and description of water birds