1784 edition in fine state is so rare, that a copy has realised, at auction, £7, IOS. Bewick says (p. 60, "Memoir," 1862): "Some of the Fable cuts ('Gay,' 1779) were thought so much of by my master (Beilby), that he, in my name, sent impressions of a few of them to be laid before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., and I obtained a premium." (Seven guineas, which he presented with intense gratification to his mother.) We have thus, by easy stages, travelled through the various phases of talent, progressively revealed in the earlier productions of Thomas Bewick, to the one now before us, the most important work produced by him previous to his well-known "British Quadrupeds," first published 1790; "British Birds," 1797, 1804; and his large edition of "Esop's Fables," 1818 (each work embellished with his inimitable and ever-pleasing vignettes). Examples from some of these and other works follow.

"The Chillingham Wild Bull."-Bewick's large engraving of this subject, with border, has realised twenty guineas. See Jackson on Wood-Engraving." A fine copy on vellum, now in the South Kensington Museum, had been purchased for fifty guineas.-ED.

The facts and statements here presented are soon written, and as shortly read; but they are the result of years of persevering research and study. Had space permitted they might have been greatly extended; yet they submit to the reader a brief resumé, and to the Bewick Collector a useful Manual, of Bewick's most noticeable works; while the Illustrations evidence the progressive development of his talents, from his earliest efforts to his most finished productions. And may the Editor be permitted here humbly but confidently to suggest, that this result could only have been due to an intense admiration for Bewick and the fruits of his genius, almost akin to idolatry; which had stimulated him to explore every nook and corner of the land within his reach, in an indefatigable search for any available specimens of Bewick's productions, whether written or engraved and in quest of anything, indeed, pictorial or literary, which might cast light on the Early Juvenile Literature of Great Britain. His success