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Feathered favourites : twelve coloured pictures of British birds
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- Description
- Each of the dozen birds is depicted in a color-printed lithograph surrounded by a gilt frame, and followed by poems that feature each bird by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Milton, Burns, Grahame, Montgomery, and others. Birds depicted are the House-Sparrow, Wren, Blackcap, Swallow, Woodpecker, Water-Wagtail, Titmouse, King-Fisher, Woodlark, Swan, Eagle and Wild Duck.
- Publication date
- 1854.
- Call number
- 656434
- Provenance
- Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005 This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was donated to The Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.
- Dimensions
- 26 cm (4to)
- Associated people
- Bosworth, Thomas,
- Whittingham, Charles,
- Last, Jay T.,
- Associated organization
- Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,
- Find out more
- View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)