Feeding the Fowls. Vignette in the " Looking Glass for the Mind." 

 From the original block engraved by John Bewick. Lent by Messrs. Griffith and Farrari. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Preface v 



Introduction xi 



CHAP. 



I. Birth and School Life ............ i 



II. First Gleams of Art ............ 10 



III. Apprenticeship ............ 17 



IV. First Attempts at Wood Engraving ...... 22 



V. Friends and Acquaintances ........... 33 



VI. Work during Apprenticeship ..........41 



VII. End of Bondage ............ 48 



VIII. First Visit to London ............ 54 



IX. Newcastle again. — John Bewick .......... 61 



X. Children's Books, Miscellaneous Cuts, and the Select Fables, 1777 — 1784 . . 67 



XI. Deaths in the Family. — Bewick's Marriage ........ So 



XII. Minor Works, 1785— 1790 87 



XIII. Preparation for The History of Quadrupeds. — The Chillingham Bull ... 93 



XIV. The General History of Quadrupeds nc 



XV. Domestic Life, 1786 — 1797 ........... 134 



XVI. John Bewick 141 



XVII. Preparation for The History of British Land Birds. — Minor Works from 1791 — 1804 162 



XVIII. New Editions of The History of Quadrupeds, 1 79 1 — 1804 . . . . . 175 



XIX. The History of British Birds, Vol. L, 1797 (Land Birds) . ... 181 



XX. The History of British Birds, Vol. II., 1804 (Water Birds) . . .19; 



XXI. Private Life and Public Quarrels, 1798 — 1812 ....... 20: 



