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Paperback / softback. New.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, 1972. Facsimile of the sixth edition of 1826, volume 2 only (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 432pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped).

The Folio Society, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No edition remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. No slipcase. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall.

Hardback. New.

Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry Library. Number of copies is unknown.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by… Read More

Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile of the 6th edition. Pages clean and bright, small inscription on half-title page, boards and binding tidy, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.. Facsimile. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R E Bewick; Longman & Co. G: in good condition. Ex-lib. Library rebind with new eps. 1832. First edition thus. Green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxii, 424pp. Hundreds of fine b/w etchings. .

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light spotting to reading edge. Light staining to top edge. Dust jacket has some rubbing, sunning to back and staining to bottom of rear spine. Spine has light fading. Some creasing and light fraying to top edge of jacket.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

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.

Charles Henry Cook, 1832. ~Bookplate to Volume I. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Half black polished calf, re-backed in matching calf with original back-strips laid down. 2 original gilt labels per Volume. Fine floral decorated green cloth to boards. General moderate wear. Eleven illustrations annotated in an early nineteenth-century, very disapproving, possibly Evangelical hand, e.g 'cruel', 'profane', 'the dreadful sin of suicide', 'drunkenness is a sin'.~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . Hardcover. Good+. xl, 386 + xxii, 424pp. Many illus. Binding sound.

NEWCASTLE, WALKER, 1805. VOL. 2 IS THE HISTORY OF WATER BIRDS. REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, RAISED BANDS, AEG, GILT TITLE. pp (xxii), 400. SOME RUBBING TO THE BOARDS EDGES. A VERY NICE, CLEAN COPY. NUMEROUS WOODCUTS BY BEWICK.

Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, for Belby & Bewick. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully rebound in tan half calf, maroon Morocco label with gilt titles, marbled boards, 117 figures of birds of which 44 have been hand colored, a lovely clean, tight copy. Volume one of a two volume set. ; 8" x 6.5"; 355 pages .

, 'A History of British Birds' contains Vol.I containing the History and Description of Land Birds; Vol.II containing the History and Description of Water Birds; illustrated title pages, wood engravings of the birds throughout both volumes along side numerous other vignettes, 'A General History of Quadrupeds' contains an Illustrated title page and black and white wood engravings of mammals throughout

Newcastle: Printed By Edward Walker, for T. Bewick: Sold By Him and Longman and Rees London, 1804. Full-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ...... Part One Containing the History and Description of Land Birds; Part II. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds ." bound together in one volume. The supplementary volumes were published in 1821. Printed by Edward Walker, Pilgrim-Street, for T. Bewick : Sold by Him and E.Charnley, Newcastle; and Longman and Co., London. The three volumes have been beautifully rebound in full leather, with a decorative gilt edge and with five raised bands and a gilt decoration and gilt lettering to spine. It retains the original end papers and paste downs, these are badly foxed, and indeed there is intermittent foxing throughout all three volumes. The front board of Volume 2 has been damaged by what appears to be a series of pin pricks. It is only noticeable close up. The first 23 pages also appear to have suffered… Read More

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: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1816. xxxviii, (43)-329, [1]; xxii, (19)-361, [1], text engravings. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo in 4s, cont. half leather, marbled boards (rubbed/scuffed), rebacked; hinges neatly reinforced. Small ownership stamps and bookbinder's ticket (John Cain, Bookbinder, Douglas) to pastedowns. Some foxing througout. Good set.. Illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Vol. I: Land Birds - 6th edition; Vol. II: Water Birds - 4th edition. Pagination as in Roscoe.Roscoe, 22 & 23.Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a passionate naturalist, ‘a son of nature’, as Audubon called him, a man immersed in the English countryside. He is considered as England’s most masterly engraver, and his books, ‘History of British Birds’ (2 vols first published 1797, 1804) are illustrated with Bewick's wood engravings. Bewick created these books with the purpose of instructing the youth, remarking on his illustrations, ‘… I illustrated them… Read More

BEWICK ThomasHistory of British Birds - complete 2 volume setThe Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick.Vol 1. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. (1821) pp xl + 43-330 pp British Birds + 48 pp Supplement to Vol. IVol 2. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. (1821) pp xxii + 19-360 British Birds + 44 pp Supplement to Vol. IINewcastle: Printed By Edward Walker, Pilgrim Street, for T. Bewick: Sold By Him and E. Charnley, Newcastle and Longman and Co London, 1821.Complete two volume set, professionally restored (but pages left uncut) in matching contemporary half calf over marbled boards.Spine with raised gilt decorative bands, name, title and volume.Condition; occasional marks to margins, leaf Z2 (p 182)in volume 1 with closed tear archivally repaired without loss, wide margins, partly untrimmed, contemporary diced half calf, later rebacks (endpapers replaced, with previous owner's book plates removed from inner boards).The-General-History-of-Quadrupeds and… Read More