^Esop. From the original wood block executed by Bewick for Mozley, Gainsborough, about 1808, for an edition 

 of Croxall's " Fables." Lent by Mr. Mozley, Derby. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



NEW EDITIONS OF THE HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS, 1 79 1 TO 1804. 



HE sale of .the first edition of the Quadrupeds being immediate and 



continuous, Bewick published the second edition in the following year 

 ( 1 79 1). There was a great improvement in the illustrations in this ; many 

 large gaps were filled, and important additions made both in the figures of 

 the animals and in the tail-pieces. The majority of the purely insipid cuts 

 which found places in the 1790 edition were dispensed with, the impressions 

 of the cuts do not show any signs of wearing, while the whole having been 

 revised with the experience gained through the first edition, the 1791 



