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<dl><dd>"London: Printed by Edward Newman"--Verso of half title</dd>
<dd>Waring Kidd was a Godalming naturalist known as Rusticus</dd>
<dd>Some of the wood engravings by Thomas Bewick</dd>
<dd>Also issued as: The letters of Rusticus on natural history of Godalming / edited by Edward Newman</dd>
<dd>Title vignette</dd>
<dd>Publisher's advertisements: [4] p. (3rd group)</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references</dd>
<dd>extracted picklist</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy (39088002996908) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Alexander Wetmore. Inscribed on front free endpaper: A. Wetmore</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy inscribed in pencil on t.p.: James Searle, Greenwich</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has an additional [4]-p. publisher's catalog, dated June 1848, bound-in at end</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy in original red publisher's cloth binding, blind-embossed decoration, title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Natural history; Natural history; Birds; Insect pests</div>
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<dl><dd>Kidd, Waring</dd>
<dd>Newman, Edward, 1801-1876</dd>
<dd>Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828, illustrator</dd>
<dd>Searle, James, former owner. DSI</dd>
<dd>Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI</dd></dl></div>
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