Nature's engraver
Subtitle: a life of Thomas Bewick
By: Jenny Uglow.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780226823911
Subjects: Bewick, Thomas, -- 1753-1828; Wood-engravers -- England -- Biography; Illustrators -- England -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maps; title: Prologue. A plain man's art; title: I. Source. 1. The banks of the Tyne; title: 2. Nature and drawing; title: 3. The common; title: 4. 'Beilby's wild lad'; title: 5. Life in the town; title: 6. Pretty histories; title: 7. 'God gave the earth to you'; title: II. Stream. 8. North and south; title: 9. Partner; title: 10. 'Esto perpetual!'; title: 11. Walking; title: 12. Bell and John; title: 13. Among the animals; title: 14. Quadrupeds; title: III. Flood.15. From fur to feathers; title: 16. 'Your lads'; title: 17. 'Red nightcap days'; title: 18. Daily bread; title: 19. Land birds; title: 20. On his own; title: 21. Home and friends; title: IV. Tide. 22. Water birds; title: 23. 'With Bewick, I was then happy'; title: 24. Back to business; title: 25. Shifting ground; title: 26. Fame, fables, and apprentices; title: 27. Taking stock; title: 28. Salmon and swallows; title: 29. Sore tired; title: Epilogue. Nature's engraver; title: Acknowledgments; title: Workshop apprentices; title: Abbreviations, sources and notes; title: List of illustrations; title: Index.