The engraver whose History of British Birds and Quadrupeds transformed book illustration tells his own story: a boyhood on the Tyne at Cherryburn, his apprenticeship in Newcastle, the making of his great books, and his opinions on art, religion, politics, angling and the countryside, illustrated with his own engravings for a work on British fishes.
A delightful, plain-spoken autobiography of a craftsman of genius and a lover of rural England. Download the free EPUB.