Bewick Robert Ferguson (3 results)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good +. 2 vols, measuring 4" x 6.5." Illustrated with engravings on wood by Bewick. A very good + set in brown calf, boards are lightly scuffed and rubbed, minor wear to spine ends and corners. Bound by R. Nelson. Bewick (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by W. Davison (1801), 1801
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Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.Old New York Book Shop, ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols, measuring 4.25" x 6.75." Illustrated with engravings on wood by Bewick. A very good set in light brown calf. Spines darkened, wear along gutters. Previous owner's booplate pasted to front end paper in each volume. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Top edges gilt. Bewick (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Printed by W. Davison c, 1814
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
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Add to basket12 wood-engraved plates, and 49 vignettes and tail-pieces by Thomas Bewick and Isaac Nicholson, copper-engraved frontispieces and title pages by Mitchell, these, and the contents leaves toned (as usual), final advertisement leaf discarded, vol. II, G3 with slight loss at fore-edge margin, pp. vii, [ii], 10-272, [i]; vii, [iv], 1…0-254, small 8vo in 4s, nineteenth-century straight-grained maroon morocco, boards with blind fillets and decorative gilt roll-tooled borders, backstrips gilt-lettered with raised bands and gilt panels, pastedowns modern wood-engraved bookplates, Sotheran ticket tipped-in, vol. II backstrip faded to tan with wear at head with slight loss, hinges and board edges a little rubbed, good. Issued to complement Davison's new editions of the poetry of Burns and Beattie, the wood-engravings for all three publications providing a very useful collection of illustrations from which the publisher could draw for later titles including Buffon's System of Natural History. Hugo's entry for this edition reads, 'With numerous cuts by Thomas Bewick, of which I possess the original wood-blocks.' (Hugo 305: Tattersfield TB, 2.501).
