A naturalist's finely engraved catalogue of the land and water birds of Britain, each cut from wood by his own hand.
Books that mention A History of British Birds (1)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “I returned to my book--Bewick's History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank.”