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History of British birds
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- the figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick
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- British birds
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- English
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- Newcastle : Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick : Sold by them, and G.G. and J. Robinson ... , 1797 [that is, 1798]-1804
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- 2 volumes (xxx, 2 unnumbered pages, 335 pages, 1 unnumbered page; volumes2: xx, 400 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm47152692
- Text of v. 1 written by Ralph Beilby and revised by Bewick. Text of v. 2, by Bewick, has been mistakenly ascribed to Henry Cotes who revised Bewick's text. Cf. NUC pre-1956, NB 0402537.
- Vol. 1 is second ed.; date from Roscoe and ESTC.
- Error in paging: in first vol. p. xiv misnumbered xvi.
- Publisher's advertisement for 4th ed. of A general history of quadrupeds on p. [1] at end of vol. 1 (variants have no advertisement).
- ESTC (RLIN) N33061.
- Roscoe, S. Bewick 15c.
- v. 1. Containing the history and description of land birds -- v. 2. Containing the history and description of water birds