Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : volume the first [-the second] : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes, their nests and eggs, food, favourite plants, shrubs, trees, &c. &c. : faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature, by the author, on forty copper plates / by James Bolton.

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Title: Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : volume the first [-the second] : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes, their nests and eggs, food, favourite plants, shrubs, trees, &c. &c. : faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature, by the author, on forty copper plates / by James Bolton.
Alternative Title: Essay towards a natural history of British song birds
Creator: Bolton, James, active 1775-1795.
Published / Created: 1794-1796.
Publication Place: [Manchester] :
Publisher: Printed [by Nicolson and Co.] for and sold by the author, at Stannary, near Halifax, sold also by B. and J. White, in London, and may be had of all other booksellers,
Description: Armorial bookplate: Edward Akroyd. Plates are hand colored.
Bibliography: leaf 82.
Paged continuously: v. 1: viii, 40 leaves, [40] leaves of plates; v. 2: [3] leaves, l. 41-82, [40] leaves of plates.
Printer's name from colophon.
With a list of errata to vol.2 pasted to the final leaf which contains errata from the first volume.
Extent: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 35 cm. (4to)
Extent of Digitization: Partially digitized
Language: English

Format: mixed material
Genre: Hand-colored illustrations
Intaglio prints
Resource Type: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name): Akroyd, Edward,--1810-1887--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic): Birds--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Birds--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

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Citation: ESTC (RLIN) T84359 and Yale. Ornithological books, p. 34