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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.
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. and Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. Both unbound in solander boxes
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds
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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.
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