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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Craddock & Joy, booksellers and publishers ; but afterwards 
started business on bis own account, at first in Cbandos 
Street and later in Regent Street. Between May and 
October 1835 be published twenty -four numbers of the 
London Journal , dealing with natural history, and from 1852 
to 1854 produced a similar monthly called Kidd's Own 
Journal , afterwards reissued in five volumes. Later he sold 
his business, and devoted himself to natural history and 
aviculture. 
Kidd resided at New Road, Hammersmith, where he set 
up a fine aviary, which, however, was burnt down. He 
contributed articles and notes on birds to the Gardener's 
Chronicle , and others, in conjunction with Frank Buckland, 
to Birds and Bird Life (1863). He also wrote a number of 
chatty articles, rather indefinitely ornithological, in Morris’s 
Naturalist (1851-58). He died at Hammersmith, January 7, 
1867. 
[1856.] The Book of British Song-Birds, and Aviary-Companion ; includ- 
ing interesting Notes on the “ Warblers,” and our other Summer 
Visitors. Illustrated by Wood Engravings. London (Groom- 
bridge) : [n.d.]. 
Collation — Seven pts. in 1 vol. Ecap 8vo : Prelim, pp. viii ; 
The Canary, 26 pp. ; Goldfinch, Linnet, Bullfinch, 26 pp. ; 
Nightingale, Blackcap and Garden Warbler, pp. 28 ; Blackbird, 
Song Thrush and Missel Thrush, 34 pp. ; Skylark, Woodlark and 
Kobin Bedbreast, 36 pp. ; Aviary and its Occupants, 2 pts., pp. 
32 and 48. 
1852-54. [Articles and notes in] Kidd’s Own Journal, for intercommuni- 
cations on natural history, popular science and things in general. 
London : 1852-54. 
5 vols. 8 vo. Contains various short articles, notes, letters, 
reviews, etc., relating to British birds. 
King (Daniel), ob. 1664 ? 
This author, by profession an engraver, was the son of 
William King of Chester, a baker, and was apprenticed for 
ten years as painter in 1630 to Randle Holme the elder, and 
after carrying on business for some years at Chester, he 
removed to London, where he published the Vale Roy all. 
The text was written by William Smith, William Webb, and 
