A natural history of foreign birds
Contributors: Nicholson, Isaac, 1789-1848; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; Davison, William, 1780-1858, printer
Publisher: Printed and sold wholesale and retail, by W. Davison
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Alnwick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works; Chapbooks; Specimens
Other titles: Foreign birds
Notes: "With thirty-four engravings on wood"--t.p.

Title vignette.

Vignettes on front and back covers.

First sentence: "This singular bird, whose elegant plumage is so often used in the attire of our most fashionable ladies, appears, in some measure, to connect the class of quadrupeds and birds."

Includes 34 woodcuts.

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 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.

The 7 chapbooks sometimes issued together under title: A cabinet of natural history.