(Bewick, Thomas; and Bewick, John). 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. Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, London, 1820. Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in three-quarter dark blue leather and cloth, titled in gilt between raised bands on the spine. The edges are marbled. The covers are rubbed and stained with some of the leather chipped from the spine. xl & 332 pages, illustrated with a full-page frontispiece portrait and 4 additional portraits of Thomas Bewick and profuse textual wood engravings, mostly by Thomas & John Bewick. The pages are unusually clean and bright. Very good.
First edition.
The Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue, found on pages v through xxxi, are by John Trotter Brockett.
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