Birds Journal'High from the earth I heard a bird' Emily Dickinson Eric Fitch Daglish (1892 1966) was a wood engraver, writer and illustrator. His book Woodcuts of British Birds was published in 1925. Daglish learnt the art of wood engraving from Paul Nash and became known for his illustrations of the natural world. He illustrated an edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne and both wrote and illustrated several books on natural history, including