Lot 130
Bewick, Thomas
18th & 19th century illustrated works
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Beilby, Ralph]. History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick. Volume 1. Newcastle: printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick, 1797. First edition, later issue (the advertisement on final leaf is for the fourth edition of 'Quadrupeds' rather than the third), 8vo (20.6 x 12cm), [5],iv-xxx,335 p., wood-engraved vignette to title and numerous vignette illustrations by Bewick throughout, with the ‘coarse’ vignette on p. 285 which was later suppressed, half-title bound after p. xxxx, contemporary mottled calf, lower board cracking but firm, minor spotting on endpapers but internally clean, bookplate of English artist Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913) on front pastedown [ESTC N511577];
[Beilby, Ralph]. A General History of Quadrupeds. 4th ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, and T. Bewick, 1800. 8vo (23 x 13.9cm), x,525p., wood-engraved vignette to title and numerous vignette illustrations by Bewick throughout, the main animal illustrations have been hand-coloured, contemporary mottled calf, with gilt borders on boards and gilt tooling with animal designs on spine, marbled endpapers, binding scuffed, some spotting and staining to endpapers but internally clean, with bookplate on front free paper of the Earl of Altamont, Jesus College, Cambridge (Howe Browne (1788-1845), later 2nd Marquess of Sligo, with pencil annotation on p. 197 making joke about Lady Sligo, presumably his mother, Catherine, Marchioness of Sligo) [ESTC T61241];
[Beilby, Ralph]. A General History of Quadrupeds. 5th ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, 1807. Royal 8vo (24.1 x 14.4cm), x,525 p., wood-engraved vignette to title and numerous vignette illustrations by Bewick throughout, half calf with marbled boards, gilt stag design on spine, fore-edges and bottom edges untrimmed, boards scuffed, spine split and worn at head and tail, 19th-century armorial bookplate of H. M. Clifford;
[Beilby, Ralph]. History of British Birds. Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1804. 2 volumes, 8vo (20.9 x 12cm), a uniform edition published by Walker, wood-engraved vignette to title and numerous vignette illustrations throughout, contemporary calf, 19th-century armorial bookplate of William Douglas of Orchardton;
[Beilby, Ralph]. A General History of Quadrupeds. 8th ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick, and son, 1824. 8vo (20.7 x 12cm), x,526 p., wood-engraved vignette to title and numerous vignette illustrations by Bewick throughout, later half calf with red buckram boards, raised bands on spine, some spotting and staining to endpapers but internally clean (6)