Egyptian Vulture (male and female) hand-coloured woodblock c1856.

by Fawcett, Benjamin

Antique print of a pair of Egyptian Vultures.

Original hand-coloured woodblock engraving by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917), printed by the most accomplished of the 19th century woodblock printers, Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893), for English cleric, ornithologist and founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and Member of the Ashmolean Society, the Reverend Francis Orpen Morris, B.A. (1810-1895), for the most popular bird book of the Victorian era in Britain, A History of British Birds, published in London by Groombridge and Sons of Paternoster Row. F.O. Morris wrote the text for books which were financed and printed by Fawcett and illustrated by Frank Lydon.

Fine condition with very slight soiling. Page size is 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (185 x 117mm)