Excerpt from A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself: Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed by the Author for a Work on British Fishes At all events in the connection for which the mss. Had been consigned to my hands. I consequently decided to restrict myself to adding a few authentic letters to those which Miss Bewick had printed in 1862, and to use the rest, as opportunity offered, in verifying and extending the notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.