Four printer's specimen sheet wood engravings of animals, story illustrations, etc., published by W. Davison, Bondgate Street, Alnwick, circa 1820s/30s, consisting of 4 large sheets, each containing 8 groups of multiple wood engraved illustrations with a decorative border (including one duplicate), rubbed and some fraying and soiling to margins, sheet size 450 x 565 mm (17.7 x 22.2 ins), together with 4 copies of a similar specimen sheet of 6 large wood engravings of a bear, tiger, porcupine, elephant, zebra and dromedary, each with decorative woodcut border, sheet size 580 x 450 mm (22.8 x 17.7 ins), plus 3 other related prints (a late issue of Bewick's Chillingham Bull (with vertical hairline crack visible in the plate), an engraved portrait of Thomas Bewick by Frederick Bacon after James Ramsay published by R. Turner, Newcastle/Colnaghi London, circa 1850, and one other specimen sheet of wood engraved decorative letters, the latter 2 prints with large marginal stains (11)
Four printer's specimen sheet wood engravings of animals, story illustrations, etc., published by W. Davison, Bondgate Street, Alnwick, circa 1820s/30s, consisting of 4 large sheets, each containing 8 groups of multiple wood engraved illustrations with a decorative border (including one duplicate), rubbed and some fraying and soiling to margins, sheet size 450 x 565 mm (17.7 x 22.2 ins), together with 4 copies of a similar specimen sheet of 6 large wood engravings of a bear, tiger, porcupine, elephant, zebra and dromedary, each with decorative woodcut border, sheet size 580 x 450 mm (22.8 x 17.7 ins), plus 3 other related prints (a late issue of Bewick's Chillingham Bull (with vertical hairline crack visible in the plate), an engraved portrait of Thomas Bewick by Frederick Bacon after James Ramsay published by R. Turner, Newcastle/Colnaghi London, circa 1850, and one other specimen sheet of wood engraved decorative letters, the latter 2 prints with large marginal stains (11)
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