After Bewick Thomas (6 results)

Soft. Condition: Fair+. Woodcut vignette to page 22 (after Bewick, I believe). (illustrator). c.1840. Fair+. Missing title page. All as pictured. 24pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12 pages, illustrations : 18 cm. some foxing to covers & end papers.

pp. 36, small 8vo, original illustrated printed wrappers, backstrip rubbed, a few faint marks, tipped-in 1929 library label at rear, good. One of a seven-volume chapbook edition, an abridgment of Buffon's System of Natural History, the illustrations attributed by Hugo to Bewick, but debunked by Tattersfield, featuring somewhat unbalanced depictions of native birds, including the ring-tailed eagle. (Tattersfield TB Vol II, p. 934-5).

frontispiece, with wood-engraving of galloping horse with 4-line verse, with general title to the series, A Cabinet of Natural History., citing Thomas Bewick as the illustrator, the Apollo Press as printer, with date, 1809, rabbit (seal verso) engraving with tiny hole, some faint toning and occasional spots, pp. [ii], 36, 12mo in 6's, original illustrated printer's wrappers, tipped-in label, 'The Bewick Collection of S. Roscoe', the printed date, ?1809, corrected in ink by hand 'probably after 1818', backstrip slightly rubbed, a few small marks, good. One of a seven-volume chapbook edition, an abridgment of Buffon's System of Natural History, the illustrations attributed by Hugo to Bewick, but debunked by Tattersfield, who attributes the spurious general title-page to Bewick dealer/collector Edwin Pearson. Though Roscoe's tipped-in label supplies a catalogue number, A14, the title itself does not appear in his Bewick bibliography. (Hugo 294: Tattersfield TB Vol II, p. 934-5).

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, the verso of the second leaf of which carries the address to 'Messrs Vizetely [sic] Branston & Co / 135 Fleet St'. The firm, who traded between 1827 and 1837, were not only 'engravers and oriental printers', but publishers too: the item referred to in this letter, 'The Young Lady's Book', had two editions published in 1829 and a third in 1832, and Jackson presumably contributed work. In fair condition, discoloured and worn. Folded for postage, with broken brown wafer adhering to the reverse of the second leaf. The letter reads: 'Gentlemen / I shall feel obliged if you can send me 4 copies of the Ladies book by bearer. If you cannot let me have 4 perhaps you will [?] to send that number to the country by parcel / I am Gentlemen / Yr Obtd Servt / J Jackson'. Jackson is not to be confused with the Royal Academician of the same name (1778-1848); the DNB states that the wood engraver Ebenezer Landels (1808-1860), resided for a time with the present individual in Clarendon Street.

ONE OF 56 COPIES (from an overall edition of 60), engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page with wood engraved vignette, 114 wood-engraved birds, 2 per page, printed on recto only, marked in pencil by Roscoe (see below), initial and final leaves with faint spotting, ff. [ii], 57, 4to, 20th-century quarter calf with brown cloth boards, Roscoe's ticket (his catalogue no. A.75), tipped in, backstrip, with gilt-lettered black morocco label, and hinges rubbed, good. From the sale of William Davison's woodcut blocks and plates in 1859, it appears that James Joseph Lynch bought the bird blocks, 97 of which, present here, far from being 'never before published', were originally used for Buffon's System of Natural History (1814), and are attributed by Tattersfield to Isaac Nicholson, briefly one of Bewick's apprentices. Roscoe identifies these in pencil, using a code described on his tipped-in ticket, DL, Land Birds, DW, Water Birds, DF, Foreign Birds, each with their respective number in that edition. (Tattersfield TB Vol II, p.946).