Lot 134
Bewick, Thomas
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
Select fables. Newcastle, 1820. 8vo, portrait frontispiece, woodcuts throughout, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, faded, foxing to frontispiece and early leaves, bookplates; [Idem] A memoir of Thomas Bewick. Newcastle & London, 1862. 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, a.e.g., hinges cracking; [Idem] An additional suite of engravings in cloth folio. Newcastle, 1883. Loose in folio, plate of horse faded and foxed, others clean; White, Gilbert The natural history of Selborne. London, 1825. New edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, colour frontispiece to volume I, frontispiece to volume II, later green morocco gilt, rubbed at edges, some foxing to early leaves; and a copy of Bewick in Russian dated 1923 (6)