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new birds, subsequently incorporated in the Linnean System. 
His works contain a number of British, birds, many of them 
figured for the first time. He had, says Swainson, the 
simplicity and piety of Izaac Walton, and may be looked 
upon as one of our greatest worthies. He retired about 
1764 to Plaistow, died July 23, 1773, and was buried at 
West Ham. 
In addition to the undermentioned works, he edited in 
1771 a second edition of Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina. 
A German translation of his Natural History of Birds, etc., 
with plates combined with those from Catesby’s work, was 
issued at Nuremberg in 5 vols. folio, 1749-76, and an enlarged 
edition in Dutch at Amsterdam, 1772-81. A memoir of his 
life and works, with a catalogue (by Linnaeus) of all the 
species in his Natural History , was published in 1776. The 
Discourse on the Emigration of British Birds was erroneously 
attributed to this author by Coues, Waterhouse, and others, 
as well as in the Cat. Libr. Brit. Mus. {Nat. Hist.), and, in 
fact, his name was printed on the edition of 1814, but the 
author is now known to have been J. Legge ( q.v .). 
*1743-51. A | Natural History | of | Birds. | Most of which have not been 
figur’d or describ’d, and | others very little known from obscure 
or too brief | Descriptions without Figures, or from Figures very 
ill | design’d. | Containing | The Figures of [Sixty Birds and Two 
Quadrupeds] engrav’d | on Fifty-two Copper Plates, after curious 
Original Drawings from | Life, and exactly Colour’d. With full 
and accurate Descriptions. | By George Edwards, | Natura 
semper eadem, sed Artes sunt varise. | London : | Printed for 
the Author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick- Lane. | 
M.DCC.XLIIl[— Li]. 
4 pts. 4to, 1743-47-50-51, pts. 2-4 being so described on the 
titles. The first vol. contains a general title to the 4 pts., undated 
and reading “ A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of 
Some other Bare and Undescribed Animals,” etc. The work is 
continued by : — 
*1758-64. Gleanings of Natural History, exhibiting figures of Quadrupeds, 
Birds, Insects, Plants, etc. . . . with descriptions. London : 
1758[— 64]. 
3 pts. 4to, 1758-60-64. Text in English and French. 
The 7 vols. contain 362 col. pi., with descriptive letterpress 
to each. We do not give collation as we do not regard it as a 
