BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 8° (224 x 142mm.). Wood-engraved vignette on title, illustrations and vignettes by Thomas Bewick Contemporary marbled calf gilt by Terry (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : "A present from Mr William Turner Newcastle, to Thomas Brown Newgrove, January 1819" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, with Bewick's thumb-print receipt bound in before title. Roscoe 45.
BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 8° (224 x 142mm.). Wood-engraved vignette on title, illustrations and vignettes by Thomas Bewick Contemporary marbled calf gilt by Terry (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : "A present from Mr William Turner Newcastle, to Thomas Brown Newgrove, January 1819" (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, with Bewick's thumb-print receipt bound in before title. Roscoe 45.
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