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YOUNG, William Weston (d.1847). Proposals for publishing by Subscription, In Numbers, Price 2s. 6d. each, British Ornithology, or History of Birds, systematically arranged, by William Weston Young. With An Appendix, Containing the Doubtful Species; also the Eggs, coloured from nature; together with The Outline of the Head of Each Species, of natural size. The Numbers to be published Monthly, and to contain five Species each. [n.p.: n.d. but circa 1805]
2 leaves (204 x 130mm). Title as above (verso blank); 2pp. sample of the text (printed recto and verso). 1 hand-coloured engraved plate of a Bullfinch. Modern red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: sale: Sotheby's 22 March 1977 lot 428 "unrecorded and perhaps unique", sold ¨260.
VERY RARE, apparently unrecorded. William Weston Young was by turn a farmer, miller, wreck-raiser, merchant, land and colliery surveyor, inventor and occasional bird painter of extraordinary energy and diverse gifts. He drew and engraved flower and bird designs for the Swansea porcelain manufactory between 1803 and 1806. He died in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in 1847.
2 leaves (204 x 130mm). Title as above (verso blank); 2pp. sample of the text (printed recto and verso). 1 hand-coloured engraved plate of a Bullfinch. Modern red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: sale: Sotheby's 22 March 1977 lot 428 "unrecorded and perhaps unique", sold ¨260.
VERY RARE, apparently unrecorded. William Weston Young was by turn a farmer, miller, wreck-raiser, merchant, land and colliery surveyor, inventor and occasional bird painter of extraordinary energy and diverse gifts. He drew and engraved flower and bird designs for the Swansea porcelain manufactory between 1803 and 1806. He died in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in 1847.