A History of British Birds Vol. I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Vol. II. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. by BEWICK, Thomas - 1805

Paperback / softback. New.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, 1972. Facsimile of the sixth edition of 1826, volume 2 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 432pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped).

The Folio Society, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.

The Folio Society, 2010. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Volume 1 of 2-volume set; 382 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong unaged paper; slight rubbing in front gutter--no breaks; beautiful b&w ill., one assumed from the 1826 edtion o which the Folio edition is based; clean blue and white marbled boards with blue leather spine with raised bands; gilt lettering is still bright; despite absence of slip case edge wear is minimal.

Hardback. New.

Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by… Read More

Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.. Facsimile. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R E Bewick; Longman & Co. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. 1832. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. .

Folio Society, London 2010 (reprinting the 1826 edition, with minor emendations). 23.0 x 15.0cms, c 760pp, b/w illusts, 2 fine hardback volumes with decorated boards in fine plain slipcase. Volume I covers: birds of prey (falcons, owls, shrikes); birds of the pie kind (prieles, woodpeckers; grosbeaks; buntings; finches; flycathers; larks;warblers; titmouses; swallows; doves; gallinaceous; grouses; bustards; plowers) Volume II covers: herons; spoonbills; ibises; curlews; snipes; godwits; sandpipers; oyster-catchers; avosets; gallinules; coots; phalaropes; grebes; guillemots; divers; terns; predatory gulls; petrels; merguses, anases; pelicans; auks.