Details - British ornithology : being the history with a coloured representation of every known species of British birds

British ornithology

Title

British ornithology : being the history with a coloured representation of every known species of British birds

By

Graves, George, 1754-1839

Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822 , ill
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 , ill
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 , ill

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for the author, by Stephen Couchman ... and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811-1821

Notes

Issued in parts between 1811 and 1821. The 3rd v., with a t.p. dated 1821, also serves as the 3rd v. for the 2nd ed. of this work. For a discussion of the work's publication, and particularly its illustrators, see C.E. Jackson, Bird etchings, p. 190-200.

Hand-colored ill., attributed primarily to Graves, S. Howitt, and S.T. Edwards.

Freeman, R.B. British nat. hist. books, 1495-1900, | 1415

BM (nat. hist.), | v. 2, p. 709