Thomas Bewick. Engraved by his pupil, John Jackson. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



PREPARATION FOR THE HISTORY OF BRITISH LAND BIRDS J 



MINOR WORKS FROM 1 79 1 TO 1804. 



HILE Thomas Bewick was busy preparing and publishing the second 



* * and third editions of the Quadrupeds his thoughts turned to another 

 project in which it had long been his ambition to succeed. From his good 

 fortune with the Quadrupeds he rightly judged that he had a fair chance 

 of producing another book, which, while there was a promise of profit, the 

 undertaking was one full of highest pleasures for the artist; of difficulties 



