Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to The Year 1784, Together with a Memoir; and Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.

BEWICK Thomas and John.

Published by Newcastle: Printed for S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820

About this Item

First edition. Royal octavo (23.5 x 15.5cm), published at one guinea. pp. [2],xl,332. With a frontispiece portrait, vignette title & 344 woodcuts. Some few occasional lights marks. Full contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to style with label, gilt, the board corners repaired, slighty rubbed. Vg. [Bell 76; Hugo 428; Tattersfield TB2.576].

Seller Inventory # 12722

Bibliographic Details

• 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 Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
• Publisher: Newcastle: Printed for S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
• Publication Date: 1820