Charlton Nesbit

This print, fifteen inches by twelve, was one of the largest wood-engravings ever attempted in the precise mode of Bewick's shop.

[2] Around 1799 Nesbit moved from Newcastle to Fetter Lane, London, where in 1801 he engraved woodcuts for Grey's edition of Samuel Butler's Hudibras.

He worked on the 1806 Scriptures Illustrated of William Marshall Craig, and on Wallis and Scholey's edition of David Hume's History of England, which often bears his name on the woodcuts.

With Branston and another of Bewick's pupils, Luke Clennell, he engraved the head and tail pieces for an 1808 edition of William Cowper's Poems in two volumes.

In 1830 Nesbit returned to London and worked upon Harvey's 'Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green', 1832; Gilbert White's Selborne, 1836; and Latrobe's Scripture Illustrations, 1838.

Wood-engraving by Charlton Nesbit of a bird's nest, heading the Preface of Thomas Bewick 's A History of British Birds , Volume 1, 1797.