Great egret, Ardea alba. Egret. Handcoloured woodblock engraving from The Natural History of Birds, published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, Suffolk, 1815. Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in Bungay in 1795 and went into partnership with nonconformist radical printer John Firby Childs in 1808.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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