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Jenny Uglow - Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick - 9780571223756 - 9780571223756
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

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Description for Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick Paperback. Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; AFH; AGB; AGN; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 592.

Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures.

In Nature's Engraver: The life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow tells the story ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571223756
SKU
9780571223756
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II ... Read more

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