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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WARNER 
Breeding and | Teaching all sorts of | Singing Birds. | . . . The 
Like not extant. | London : Printed for Tho. Ward : and sold at 
his | House in White-cross Street, near Cripple-gate, 1714. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 83. 
1728. [Anonymous.] The Bird Fancier’s Recreation. | Being Curious | 
Remarks | on the Nature of | Song-Birds, | with choice | In- 
structions | Concerning | The Taking, Feeding, Breeding and 
Teach- | ing them, | and to know the Cock | from the Hen. | 
Also | the Manner of taking Birds With | Lime-Twigs, and the 
Preparations | necessary thereto. | With | An Account of the 
Distempers Inci- | dent to Song-Birds, and the | Method to cure 
them. | London : Printed for T. Ward, and | Sold at his House 
at the Bell and Bird-Cage, | the Corner of Silver-Street, in Wood- 
street, near | Cripple- Gate, 1728. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vi + pp. 96. Engraved frontispiece. 
[Waring (S.)], ca. 1832 
This authoress, a sister of Samuel M. Waring (1792-1827), 
also wrote The Wild Garland (1827). The undernoted is 
merely a compilation. 
*1832. [Anonymous.] The | Minstrelsy of the Woods ; | or, | Sketches 
and Songs | Connected with the | Natural History | of | Some 
of the most interesting British and Foreign | Birds. | By the 
Author of “ The Wild Garland ” &c. | London : | Harvey and 
Darton, | Gracechurch Street. | 1832. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 227. 18 plates. (Pub- 
lished with plates both coloured [9s.] and uncoloured [6s.].) 
* 
Warner (Rev. Richard), 1763-1857 
This indefatigable antiquary was born in Marylebone, 
October 18, 1763, being the son of Richard Warner, “ a 
respectable London tradesman.” He was sent to a school 
near London until his father removed to Lymington, Hamp- 
shire, when he went to the Grammar School at Christchurch. 
After several disappointments he entered an attorney’s 
office, but appears to have had a disposition for Holy Orders. 
On October 19, 1787, he matriculated from St. Mary’s Hall, 
Oxford, and kept eight terms at the University, but left 
without taking a degree. About 1790 he was ordained by 
the Archbishop of York, becoming soon afterwards curate of 
