Description

This original antique print has been hand coloured. Depicting a White-Winged Crossbill And American Crossbill

From Oliver Goldsmith’s “A History of the Earth and Animated Nature” (1728-1774). The first edition (in eight volumes) appeared in London in 1774. The work sought to draw together virtually all that was known about the planet earth, its plants and animals, and even its human inhabitants described from a biological perspective. Goldsmith’s Animated Nature went through over twenty editions into the Victorian era and served as a popular source of information about the natural world and his work became the source of what countless individuals in the English-speaking world knew about the natural world around them.

Published c1860 by A. Fullarton.