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mark as an artist, the only book of any real importance which 
he subsequently produced being Aesop’s Fables in 1818. 
His most famous engraving, that of the Chillingham Bull, 
was executed for Marmaduke Tunstall in 1789. His wife, 
Isabella Elliott, of Ovingdean, whom he had married in 1786, 
died in 1826, and in November 1828, at the ripe old age of 
seventy-five, he followed her to the grave, and lies buried 
beside her in Ovingham churchyard, “ at the west end of the 
church near the steeple.” 
A large number of his original drawings are on view in 
one of the galleries of the Hancock Museum at Newcastle, 
having been bequeathed by his last surviving daughter, 
Miss Isabella Bewick. 
1797[-1804]. History | of | British Birds. | The figures engraved on Wood 
by T. Bewick. | Vol. I. [Vol. II., 1804, m.m.]. Containing the | 
History and Description of Land Birds. | [Engraving] | New- 
castle : | Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick : sold by 
them, | and G. and G. and J. Bobinson, London. [Price, £1 : Is. 
in Boards.] 1797. 
Collation — 2 vols. imp., roy., med., or demy 8vo. Vol. I., 
pp. xxx + pp. 335; numerous cuts. Yol. II., pp. xx + pp. 400; 
numerous cuts. 
There were two issues of Vol. I. of this the first edition. Pro- 
fessor Newton ascribes the second issue to the year 1798, though 
both bear the same date, viz. 1797, on the title. The older issue 
may be determined from the fact that on the reverse of p. 335 
the third edition of Bewick’s Quadrupeds is announced, while in 
the other the fourth is advertised. In the first issue, moreover, 
the Magpie cut has a stump with two branches in the foreground, 
the indelicate cut at p. 285 is usually not defaced, and the in- 
scription “ Wy cliff e, 1791 ” does not appear at the base of the 
woodcut of the Sea Eagle. 
The dates of the subsequent editions of Bewick’s British 
Birds (each in 2 vols. 8vo) are as follows : 
2nd edit. 1805. 
3rd edit. 1809. 
4th edit. 1816. 
5th edit. 1821. 
6th edit. 1826. 
7th edit. 1832. 
8th edit. 1847. 
The 8th edit, contained some 20 extra tail-pieces which 
Bewick had executed for a projected History of British Fishes, 
and also 14 additional cuts of foreign birds at end of Vol I. 
