Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch from: "History of the Fishes of the British Islands" published in four volumes between 1862 and 1865. This great work contained 256 water colours a nd drawings .He made hundreds of drawings of the fish he dissected, keeping a jet of water over each specimen so that he could paint their fresh brilliance before the colours faded.Original antique woodblock prints that are the result of the collaboration of three of the most talented men of the era: Couch drew the fish from nature; Alex F. Lydon prepared the woodblocks; and Benjamin Fawcett printed the plates ( as in Morris's Birds and Houses etc) . The colour woodblock prints were then finished with Original Antique print hand colouring by locals in Polperro ! Published in London,Page size: 16.5 x 25 cm ( 6.5 x 9.8 ") Image sizes vary Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), was a country doctor from Polperro, a small fishing village in Cornwall. Couch, an authority on fishes, also did the sketches which were finished by Alexander Lydon, with the wood block engraving by Benjamin Fawcett. Many of the engraved plates were finished by Original Antique print hand.Many have minor flaws if an exact condition report is needed ask

 

Red Bandfish & Variety
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 2

 

Ray's Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3

 

White Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 2

 

Couch's Sea Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3..

 

Greenland Bullhead
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted ..x 2

 

Common Sea Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x

 

Pomeranian Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3

 

Atherine


Azurine

Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted  ..

 

Scale Finned Shad & Anchovy
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted  ..3

 

Boier's Atherine & Atherine
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted  ..

 

Barbel
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted  ..

 

Angler Fish
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 4

 

Hebridean Smelt & Argentine
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3

 

Short Sea Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted.

 

Spanish Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 2..

 

Lake Bream
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3..

 

Stone  Bass
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted oddly shaded pic actually .x 1 + 1 blemished in title @ £10

 

Arctic Chimera
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 2

 

Bergylt
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted .

 

Bib
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted

 

Bleak
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted..

 

Bubalis
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 4

 

Burbolt
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 4 

 

Brill
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x2

 

Bogue


Bonito
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted  x 2

 

Plain Bonito
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 2

 

Becker
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3 ..one with marks in margin but better colour x 2

 

Bass
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted
 

 

Boarfish
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmountedx 2

 

Butterfish
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 4

 

Butterfly Blenny
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted better than picx 2

 

Viviparous Blenny
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 3

 

Yarrell's Blenny
Original Antique print hand finished with watercolour engraving drawn by Jonathan Couch from History of the Fishes of the British Islands published from 1862 to 1865. Couch’s illustrations were ‘ drawn from their native element, with their native colours fresh upon them’  and engraved on boxwood by Alexander Francis Lydon, produced by Benjamin Fawcett, one of the country’s finest nineteenth century colour printers with Original Antique print hand finishing making all individual. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted1865. The image sizes vary but the page size is 16.5 x 25 cm  £15 unmounted x 4

 

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