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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Note . — This, the first edition, is rare. The issue, as we are 
informed in the Preface, being limited to sixty copies. 
Although coloured illustrations of eggs of British birds had 
already appeared in Albin and in Bolton’s Harmonia Buralis, 
this appears to be the first attempt to illustrate them at all fully. 
No plates seem to have been issued for the following 
numbers in the text, viz. Vol. II., 72* ; Vol. III., 94* ; Yol. IV., 
162* ; Vol. V., 171 {bis)*. 
1795-1801. The | Birds | of | Great Britain, | systematically arranged, 
accurately engraved, | and painted from Nature ; | with Descrip- 
tions, including | the Natural History of each Bird : | Prom * 
Observations the Result of more than Twenty Years Application 
to the | Subject, in the Field of Nature ; in which the distinguish- 
ing Character of each | Species is fully explained, and its Manner 
of Life truly described. | The Figures engraved from the subjects 
themselves by the Author, | W. Lewin, | Fellow of the Linnsean 
Society, | and painted under his immediate direction. | In eight 
volumes. | Volume I. [etc.] | London : | Printed for J. Johnson, 
in St. Paul’s Church-yard. | 1795 [-1801]. 
Collation — 8 vols. 4to. Vol. I., title + pp. 1-75 (1-21 un.) + pp. 
3 index pi. ; front. + pi. 1-31, and 18*, 19*, 27* of birds; pi. 1-7 
of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. II., pp. 75 + pp. 3 index; pi. 32-66 of 
birds ; 8-14 (pi. 15 not issued) of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. III., 
pp. 75 + pp. 3 index; pi. 67-97 and 66*, 81*, 84*, 94* of birds; 
pi. 16-22 of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. IV., pp. 75 + pp. 3 index; pi. 
98-131 and 100* of birds ; pi. 23-29 of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. V., 
pp. 75 + pp. 3 index ; pi. 132-166 of birds ; pi. 30-36 of eggs = 42 
in all. Vol. VI., pp. 77 + pp. 3 index; pi. 167-202 of birds; 
pi. 37-42 of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. VII., pp. 73 + pp. 3 index; 
pi. 203-236 of birds ; pi. 43-50 of eggs = 42 in all. Vol. VIII., 
pp. 71+pp. 3 index; pi. 237-267, and 245*, 251* of birds; pi. 
51-59 of eggs = 42 in all. 
Total, 278 pi. of birds + 58 pi. of eggs ; 336 pi. in all. 
The text throughout is in English and French. 
Note, . — This is the 2nd edit. The half-title is “ The Birds of 
Great Britain and their Eggs.” 
Plate 15 of eggs was apparently not published. There is no 
reference to it in the text, and though Lowndes gives it, we 
cannot find it in any of the copies we have examined. * 
A reissue on large paper of the second edition was published 
about 1812 ; the water-mark on some of the paper in Vol. I. 
bearing that date. The plates are more worn and the colouring 
inferior to the second edition. The title-page is similar. 
Engelmann ascribes “ A new and improved edition, incorporat- 
ing the labours of T. Gould, N. A. Vigors, T. Horsfield, and W. 
Swainson. 26 Coloured Plates — Folio ” to the year 1836. Not 
seen. — We find no mention of this in Agassiz, Brunet or other 
bibliographies. 
