Bidspirit auction | Sydenham Edwards - Hand-coloured engraving

Sydenham Edwards - Hand-coloured engraving of birds 1820 - This beautiful hand-coloured engraving is from Abraham Rees’ Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row 1820. It is from the Natural History Plates Volume of this work, drawn by Sydenham Edwards and engraved by Milton. The engraving features a lark, starlings and goatsuckers or nightjars. Size: 8.25in x 10.6in (21cm x 27cm)