Search Results: a history of british birds volume by thomas bewick

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Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847 Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, "...contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".

London: Folio Society, 2010. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume set in slipcase. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. 382pp, 431pp. Bound into 1/4 teal leather with marble covers. Divided into two volumes "Land Birds" and "Water Birds". Text based on that of the 1826 edition.

Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.

Newcastle: Longman & Co, 1826. 2 Vols. Half green leather over green cloth. Bindings tight, spines straight, corners solid. Five raised bands on spines. Gilt titles on red spine labels for each volume. Gilt page ends. Marbled endpapers. Slight foxing to preliminary pages, but text block remains clean. Previous owner's bookplate (Lavra Mary Forster) on front paste down of each book. Forster was the aunt of the writer E.M. Forster and a person of some note in her own right. She was acquainted with the designer William Morris and created blind-tooled and stamped leather work for books she owned. Some of her designs appeared as part of the Arts and Crafts Exhibitions Society's 1889 exhibit. She was also a lifelong friend and frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin's eldest daughter, Henrietta. The sixth edition of this title is significant for Bewick's substantial rewriting of portions of the previous editions. He opted for a more scientific presentation, and he added new birds to the… Read More

Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels in arabesque motifs and lettered in gilt.