Lot 256
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[Bewick, Thomas, illustrator]
The New Preceptor
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
or, Young Lady's and Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue ... By R. Kay, Writing-Master, and Teacher of English Grammar, Newcastle. Newcastle: printed by and for M. Angus & Son, and for W. Charnley, 1801. 12mo (16.8 x 8.5cm), mid-20th-century speckled half calf (pencilled note: 'Rebound Blackledge May 1941' to rear pastedown), 104 pp., wood-engraved title vignette and vignettes in the text by Thomas Bewick;
Harris, John (publisher). A Geographical Companion to Mrs Trimmer's Scripture, Ancient, and English Abridged Histories. London: for J. Harris, Darton and Harvey, B. Crosby and Co., and J. Hatcherd, 1802. 12mo, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, xiv 44 29 41 7 pp., 10 hand-coloured engraved folding maps, binding worn, free endpapers excised, closed tears to maps of Britain and France, a few maps slightly rumpled along fore edges;
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