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author was an artist, not a scientific ornithologist, and as a 
series of old coloured plates the work is in demand still and 
sells at high prices, although of no scientific value. It is, 
moreover, of the utmost rarity complete, although copies 
wanting a few of the end numbers more frequently turn up. 
All the plates are dated, a fact which Dr. Coues considered 
the one redeeming feature of the work. Of Lord’s life, and 
even the dates of his birth and death, we know practically 
nothing. In October 1796 he was living at 6 Lambeth Road, 
near the Obelisk, Surrey. 
1791. Lord’s | Entire New System of | Ornithology | or | (Ecumenical 
History, of | British Birds. | [Figure of Bird.] Under the 
Inspection and Patronage, of the | Rev. Mr. Peters. | Chaplain 
to his Royal Highness The | Prince of Wales. The whole accur- 
ately copied from the original Paintings | now in the possession 
of the | Artist. | With a brief account of their characters and 
Properties | The writing corrected, and embellished, by the | 
Revd. Dr. Dupree | Master of the King’s Free Grammar School at 
| Berkhamstead. | London | Published as the Act directs, May 
30th, 1791, by the Author. No 12 King St., Bloomsbury. 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, pp. vi + pp. 114, cxiv pi. (col.). 
Issued in parts. Thirty-eight appear to have been issued (May 
30, 1791, to Oct. 1, 1796) containing, according to Coues, “ 3 
plates and sheets each.” 
Loudon (Mrs. J. W.), 1807-58 
This authoress, who was born at Ritwell House, near- 
Birmingham, in 1807, was the daughter of Thomas Webb, 
who died in 1824, when she took to literature for a livelihood, 
publishing her first book, The Mummy , a Tale of the Twenty- 
second Century , in 1827. It is said that a copy falling into 
the hands of J. C. Loudon (famous as a landscape gardener 
and horticultural writer), was the means of his making her 
acquaintance. They were married in 1830 and Mrs. Loudon, 
to relieve her husband’s debts, took to writing botanical 
and natural history books. After her husband’s death in 
1843 she received a Civil List Pension of £100 and continued 
to publish new editions of her husband’s celebrated works 
besides numerous books of her own. She died at Porchester 
Terrace, Bayswater, July 13, 1858. 
