There are about a million British prints including more than 20, 000 satires and outstanding collections of works by William Blake and Thomas Bewick ..

Among those who joined the academy were Charles Eastlake, Richard Westmacott ( the younger ), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins.

* August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver ( d. 1828 )

* Thomas Bewick – Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne

The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.

His biographies of Henry Fielding ( 1883 ), Thomas Bewick ( 1884 ), Richard Steele ( 1886 ), Oliver Goldsmith ( 1888 ), Horace Walpole ( 1890 ) and William Hogarth ( 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 ) are studies marked alike by assiduous research, sympathetic presentation and sound criticism.

* Thomas Bewick and his pupils ( 1884 ), London: Chatto & Windus

Thomas Bewick ( c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828 ) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.

Bewick's autobiography, Memoirs of Thomas Bewick, by Himself, appeared in 1862.

Bewick's Wren also took his name and Thomas Bewick Primary School, in Newcastle upon Tyne, is named after him.

* Bewick, Thomas ( 1975 ).

A Memoir of Thomas Bewick.

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.

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* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

* Thomas Mann publishes Death in Venice

* January 3 – Harper's Weekly publishes Thomas Nast's first drawing of the modern Santa Claus ( although Santa existed previously ).

* Thomas Hardy anonymously publishes his romantic novel Under the Greenwood Tree.

* November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.

* Thomas Wedgwood publishes an account of his experiments in photography, along with Humphry Davy.

* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions ( 1671 ), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published ( posthumously ) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations ( anonymously ).

* January 10: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

* Thomas Hobbes publishes De Homine.

* Thomas More publishes Utopia.

* Paolo Cortese publishes De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals, including advice on palatial architecture – which inspires Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense ( January 10 )

* Thomas Corneille publishes his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into the French language.

* Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger ( or attributed to him ), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce.

* Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring publishes his description of Pterodactylus which he names Ornithocephalus antiquus.

* Thomas Blundeville publishes The Theoriques of the Seuen Planets, assisted by Lancelot Browne.

* Thomas Southwood Smith publishes the standard textbook A Treatise on Fever in London.

Thomas Pennant publishes Arctic Zoology.

* Thomas Robert Malthus publishes the first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population ( anonymously ) in London.

* Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring publishes Tabula sceleti feminini in Frankfurt am Main, the first accurate representation of the female skeleton.

* Dr Thomas Percival of Manchester publishes his Code of Medical Ethics, coining the expression medical ethics.