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work is generally more desirable than the previous publication. There 

 were 1,500 copies printed on demy 8vo paper, for which the partners found 

 it advisable to charge 9s. in place of the 8s. for the same size of the 

 first edition, and 300 on royal 8vo, sold, like the 1790 copies, at 12s. The 

 pages were increased to 483, with 212 figures and 108 vignettes, several of 

 the latter being repeated. The profits of this edition are stated by Bell to 

 have been ^342 5s. nd. 



The first addition to the second edition is the Arabian Horse. The next 

 are the Long-horned or Lancashire Breed and the Kyloe Ox. The latter 

 animal is the same as that represented in Bewick's large copper-plate 

 issued in 1790; it is executed with the greatest vigour and beauty. The 

 characteristic Polar Bear is new, replacing the weak one of the first edition. 

 Three new cuts are added among the dogs, the first being the Ban Dog, 

 another remarkable example of Bewick's skill, the variety of tones and the 

 manipulation of texture displaying everything that wood engraving can 

 legitimately attain. The greyness of the Irish Greyhound is conveyed by 

 dexterous use of delicate shade, while the third, of the Turnspit, is not nearly 

 so clever, being stiff and ungraceful. The block of the Spotted Cavy at page 

 346 replaces a very poor one in the 1790 edition. The other new engravings 

 are the Long-tailed Squirrel, the Short-eared and Long-eared Bats, and the 

 Roussette. Various changes are also made in the titles of the figures. 



The vignettes added in the second edition of the Quadrupeds are in some 

 instances very noteworthy. The first new one is the Old Coachman and 

 the Young Squire, in which the young gentleman rides importantly along 

 on a little pony, followed by an ill-favoured servant on a very high horse. 



One of the finest and most touching designs Bewick ever drew is " The 

 Hungry Ewe" — fac-similed at p. 16 — vainly trying to get food in a snow- 

 covered country and beside a desolated house. Her little lamb kneels on the 

 snow as it endeavours to obtain sustenance from the source to which nature 

 prompts it to apply, but which, alas ! is empty. It is said, in " The Treatise 



