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[wolf 
invariably in the body of the work, the orthography of the 
title being presumably the printer’s. 
1632. The | Orders | Lavves and | Ancient cus- | tomes of Swanns. | 
Caused to be Printed by Iohn Witherings | Esquire, Master and 
Governour of the Royall Game of Swans | and Signets, through- 
out England. I [Woodcut of Swan.l I London Printed by August 
Mathewes. 1632. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, title + 11. swan marks + 2 11. dedica- 
tion + pp. 1-7. 
Idem. Reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iii. pp. 359- 
363, 4to, 1745 ; again in vol. vii. 8vo, 1808. 
Wolf (Joseph), 1820-99 
This celebrated animal painter, whose name should 
properly be spelt Josef, was a German by birth, being the 
eldest son of Anton Wolf, a farmer and Hauptmann of Morz, 
near Munster mayfield, in Rhenish Prussia, at which spot he 
was born on January 21, 1820. He was educated at a school 
at Metternich, and from his very earliest days (says Mr. B. B. 
Woodward in the Diet. Nat. Biog.) exhibited that love of 
nature and its portraiture that distinguished him throughout 
life, sparing no pains in the acquisition of subjects, and show- 
ing great ingenuity in improvising drawing materials. After 
leaving school, he worked for some time on the family farm, 
but at length his father was induced to let the “ bird-fool 55 
follow his natural bent, and he was apprenticed, when sixteen, 
to a firm of lithographers at Coblenz. Later he made the 
acquaintance of Riippell, the African traveller and ornitholo- 
gist, for whom he executed drawings, as also for Schlegel and 
Wulverhorst’s great Traite de Fauconnerie. Thenceforward 
he devoted himself to such work, and in February 1848 came 
to London, and at once found employment with Robert Gray 
in illustrating his Genera of Birds , and later with Gould on 
his Birds of Great Britain , while henceforward his work both 
for books and journals such as the Ibis and P.Z.S. was too 
multifarious to detail. Among his individual works may, 
however, be mentioned his two series of Zoological Sketches 
(1861-67). His last residence was at the Primrose Hill 
