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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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SwAYSLAND (WALTER), 6b. CCL. 1888 
This author was a well-known taxidermist and naturalist 
at Brighton. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and 
was held in esteem by many ornithologists of the past genera- 
tion, for whom he was instrumental in procuring many 
rarities on the Sussex coast. In addition to the undernoted, 
he also collaborated with W. A. Blakston in preparing The 
Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage Birds (Cassell : 1890). 
The plates to Familiar Wild Birds were chiefly drawn by 
A. Thorburn. 
[ ?] List of British Birds. Brighton, s. 1. et d. 1 sheet, folio. 
1883[-88 ?] Familiar Wild Birds. First [to Fourth] Series. London 
(Cassell) : 1883[-88 ?] 
Collation — 1 vols. cr. 8vo. Yol. I. pp. viii + pp. 160, with 
40 col. pi. Yol. II. pp. viii+pp. 160, with 40 col. pi. Yol. III. 
pp. viii+pp. 160, with 40 col. pi. Yol. IV. pp. viii+pp. 160, 
with 40 col. pi. In this original issue Vol. I. is dated 1883, the 
others undated. 
At end of each vol. is a part of Eggs and Egg-Collecting by 
R. Kearton, including 4 of the col. pi. in each vol. 
Idem. Reissued in 4 vols., n.d. The latest reissues have 
the plates reprinted by three-colour process. The publisher’s 
catalogues often found at the end of the volumes generally carry 
a date at foot of first page, which gives the year of issue. 
Sweet (Robert), 1783-1835 
This celebrated horticulturist, author of the British 
Flower Garden and other similar works, which contain fine 
examples of hand-coloured plates, was born in 1783 at 
Cockington, near Torquay, being the son of William Sweet 
and his wife Mary. When sixteen years of age he was placed 
under his half-brother, James Sweet, at that time gardener 
to Richard Bright of Ham Green, near Bristol, with whom 
he remained nine years. He subsequently was gardener at 
Woodlands, the residence of John Julius Angerstein. In 1810 
he entered the Stockwell Nursery as a partner, and when 
that was dissolved in 1815, became foreman to Whitley, 
Brames and Milne of Fulham, until 1819, when he entered the 
service of Messrs. Colvill. While in their employment he was 
