A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Squirrel, 396 ; the Jerboa, substitutedfor another cut of the same animal, 397 ; the Musquash, or MuskBeaver, 416 ; the Mouse, substituted for another cut of the sameanimal, 424 ; the Short-eared Bat, 513; the Long-eared Bat, 515 ; theTernate Bat, 518 ; the Wombach, 523 ; and the OrnithorhynchusParadoxicus, 525. The cut of the animal called the Thick-nosedTapiir, at page 139 of the first edition, is transposed to page 381 ofthe last edition, and there de~scribed under the name of the Capibara:it is probably intended for the Coypu rat,
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Squirrel, 396 ; the Jerboa, substitutedfor another cut of the same animal, 397 ; the Musquash, or MuskBeaver, 416 ; the Mouse, substituted for another cut of the sameanimal, 424 ; the Short-eared Bat, 513; the Long-eared Bat, 515 ; theTernate Bat, 518 ; the Wombach, 523 ; and the OrnithorhynchusParadoxicus, 525. The cut of the animal called the Thick-nosedTapiir, at page 139 of the first edition, is transposed to page 381 ofthe last edition, and there de~scribed under the name of the Capibara:it is probably intended for the Coypu rat, a specimen of which is atpresent in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Eegents was a regular visitor of all the wild-beast shows that cameto Newcastle, and availed himself of every opportunity to obtain draw-ings from living animals. The tail-pieces introduced in subsequent editions of the Quadrupedsgenerally display more humour and not less talent in representingnatural objects than those contained in the first. In the annexed cut ^A#:^,. ^:.-*ev^^j:;,^s:^^g^ of a sour-visaged old fellow going with corn to the miU, we have anexemplification of cruelty not unworthy of Hogarth.* The over-laden, * The originals of this and the three following cuts occur respectively at pages 13, 15, 69,and 526 of the edition of 1824. The other principal tail-pieces in this edition are:Greyhound-coursing, (originally engraved on a silver cup for a person at Northallerton,)drawn by Bewick on the block, but engraved by W. W. Temple, page x, at the end of theIndex ; the Old Coachman and the Young Squire, 12; Tinkers Children in a pair of ±{EVIVAL OF WOOD ENGEAVIN(i 487 half-starved old horse,—broken-kneed, greasy-heeled, and evidentlytroubled with the string-halt, as is indicated by the action of the offhind-leg,—^liesitates to descend the brae, at the foot of which there isa stream, and the old brute on his back urges him forward by loorldnghim, as jockeys say, with the halt
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