Exhibitions

Gleanings of Natural History, Vols. 1 and 3 - George Edwards
London: G. Edwards, 1758-1764
V [Edwards] fol. Strong Room

George Edwards (1694-1773) was famed for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds. His three-volume Gleanings of Natural History supplements his History of Birds (1743-51). Between them, the two works contain engravings and descriptions of over 600 zoological subjects which had not previously been described or delineated. The bilingual French and English text is a fairly common solution to the problem of the absence of a single common scholarly language after Latin had passed out of general use.