WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF THOMAS BEWICK. Reproduced in Collotype.

Ltd ed 19/1,000 signed by Reynolds Stone. Produced on very fine paper to ensure clear images in collotype of Bewick's detailed engravings. Stone, himself an engraver chose the 351 engravings here, and used collotype as the best method, as the blocks had been lost, of ensuring the quality of image from surviving texts. 49pp of text by Stone. and a further title page vignette engraving by Stone of Nicholson's portrait of Bewick. Illustrations throughout. Pages slightly browned, red cloth covered boards are fine in substantial buckram. Dj is a bit rubbed and also sunned to spine and top edge. Very good indeed. Loosely inserted is a review slip from the publishers giving the date of publication. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".…