146 H. Gladstone—More Eighteenth-century Cage Birds


MORE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CAGE BIRDS


By H. Gladstone


[Anonymous] [N.D.]. The | British Aviary, | and \ Bird Breeder's

Companion; | containing | copious directions for propagating the

breed of | Canaries; | also, | Goldfinch and Linnet mules: | . . .

Printed by and for William Cole, | . . . 1 vol., 8vo, pp. x -f- [ii]

-f- 13/75 ; witli uncol. front, and 19 unci. pis. London. [N.D.]


The plates from Albin’s work are utilized here, which date the

volume as after 1737. The original label on back reads Bird | Breeder's

| Companion. | 4s. bds. \


[Anonymous] [N.D., circa 1730]. The Bird Fancyer's Delight \ or choice

| Observations, \ And Directions Concerning ye Teaching of all sorts

of Singing- | Birds \ after ye Flagelet and Flute ... 1 vol. oblong

8vo, pp. [2] (printed on both sides) + 20 (printed on one side

only). London. 1717.


Ditto. Another edition: slightly different title-page. [N.D., circa

1730.]


[Anonymous] 1745. A New General | History \ of | Birds .. . Illustrated

with about Four Hundred Figures, | Copied from the Originals.

2 vols, 12mo. (5| X 3J in.) ; vol. i, pp. xii-f [1] +13/340 ; vol. ii,

pp. viii + 314 + [6], index, with cuts in text. London. 1745.


This book, as regards contents, is the same as that printed in

Birmingham in 1743-4, but is much less scarce. George Edwards

(in his Essays upon Natural History, 1770, p. 81) refers to vol. ii, p. 237,

when writing of the hibernation of Swallows.


[Anonymous] 1776. A Natural History | of \ Singing Birds: \ . . .

By a Lover of Birds. 1 vol., 8vo, pp. [2] + vii -f- 120 -f- [4] index,

with uncol. front, and uncol. 22 pis. Edinburgh. 1776.


A piracy from Albin : approximating very closely to another

piracy, with similar title, published in 1754.


[Cox, Nicholas]. The | Gentleman's Recreation: | in Four parts. | . . .

The fifth edition. 1 vol, 8vo. Part i (Hunting), title + PP- [iv]



