Title: Select Fables: With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick Author: Bewick, Thomas Place: Newcastle Publisher: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, et al. Date: 1820 Description: [2], xl, 332 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout by the Bewicks and others; engraved frontispiece portrait of Bewick. 9½x5¾, later full morocco tooled in gilt with mock-hinges, raised spine bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. A nice, full-margined copy, of which Ray states "Bewick deplored this well-produced volume, which to his mind could only serve `to feed the whimsies of bibliomanists,' but he tolerated its publication. Though some of the engravings hardly rise above chapbook level (a number of them are copies), the book is useful as a record of his work before he achieved his mature style." Ray, England, 52. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine faded, a bit scuffed, joints rubbed and tender; else very good or better, contents quite clean with just a few scattered fox marks, with the bookplates of Robert Pinkney and Geoffrey Lane. Item number: 176521
Title: Select Fables: With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick Author: Bewick, Thomas Place: Newcastle Publisher: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, et al. Date: 1820 Description: [2], xl, 332 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout by the Bewicks and others; engraved frontispiece portrait of Bewick. 9½x5¾, later full morocco tooled in gilt with mock-hinges, raised spine bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. A nice, full-margined copy, of which Ray states "Bewick deplored this well-produced volume, which to his mind could only serve `to feed the whimsies of bibliomanists,' but he tolerated its publication. Though some of the engravings hardly rise above chapbook level (a number of them are copies), the book is useful as a record of his work before he achieved his mature style." Ray, England, 52. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine faded, a bit scuffed, joints rubbed and tender; else very good or better, contents quite clean with just a few scattered fox marks, with the bookplates of Robert Pinkney and Geoffrey Lane. Item number: 176521
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