401 PIGEON LITERATURE. 



London, N. 1858." Large 8vo. Pages i.-xix., 20-200. Thirty 

 coloured Portraits of Pigeons by Dean Wolstenholme. 



(5.) "A Set op Six Life-size Coloured Portraits of 

 Pigeons, viz. : The Fantail, Jacobin, Owl, Turbit, Trum- 

 peter, AND Barb. From Paintings by Dean Wolstenliolme. 

 Published by J. M. Eaton, 81, Upper Street, Islington, London, 

 Oct. 16, 1860." 



(6.) "A New and Improved Coloured Diagram, or a 

 Plan of Building or Fitting up a Pigeonary, Embel- 

 lished with Tumblers, Pouters, and Carriers. Pub- 

 lished by J. M. Eaton, London." 



Eaton was an enthusiastic fancier of the Short-faced Tumbler, 

 and the above list of his publications shows how much he 

 contributed to spread knowledge concerning fancy pigeons in 

 general. Dean Wolstenholme, who illustrated these works, 

 was also a fancier; he was born at Waltham Abbey, in 1798, 

 the son of an artist of the same name well known for his 

 pictures of sporting subjects, coloured prints of which may 

 sometimes be found in London print shops. Eaton informs 

 his readers in his work on the Almond that he was indebted 

 to a former work on the subject, but he does not indicate 

 what is his own and what he has copied out of the Treatise 

 by Windus published in 1802, he having reprinted a con- 

 siderable part of that work. Having obtained a copy of 

 Moore's "Columbarium," after spending pounds and years 

 searching for it, as he informs his readers, Eaton reprinted it 

 in 1852, taking it as the text of his Treatise on Pigeons, and 

 adding footnotes by himself and others. As will be seen from 

 the pagination of No. 2, the latter half of the book is merely 

 made up from the unsold copies of the treatise on the Almond, 

 bound up with the reprint of Moore. 



The six life-size portraits of pigeons (No. 3), and the diagram 

 (No. 6) also, were, I believe, originally published by Dean 

 Wolstenholme, on his own account, in 183 J^. He sold the 

 plates to Eaton, who republished them in 1852. 



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