Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Jenny Uglow

458 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Thomas Bewick's (1753-1828) History of British Birds was the first field guide for ordinary people, illustrated with woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. In Nature's Engraver, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside w...

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