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First edition. The descriptions that accompany these fine engravings of birds, rabbits, dogs, and foxes were extracted from Bewick's History of British Birds and General History of Quadrupeds, among others. Abraham Cooper (1787-1868) was a painter who specialized in animals and battle scenes, in particular those showing horses. He apprenticed under the celebrated artist Benjamin Marshall, contributed 189 engravings to Sporting Magazine, and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1817. He is remembered today both for his depictions of racehorses and meticulously researched war scenes, cementing his reputation as "a master of portraiture and composition" (ODNB). Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo (225 x 140 mm), pp. [36], bulked with blanks. Silver-engraved illustrations throughout, each tissue-guarded, additional silver-engraved title page, 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Near-contemporary red calf, green spine label, spine tooled in gilt and blind, boards with gilt double fillet and blind single fillet, board edges and turn-ins milled in blind, marbled endpapers, red edges. Bookplate of George Gordon Massey. Spine sunned, joints and extremities refurbished, boards lightly marked, minor foxing internally: a very good copy.…