Hesterberg William Thomas Bewick (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. (1975). Limited to 100 copies. Thin octavo brown decorated cloth stamped in gilt. Portrait frontispiece and sixteen fine wood engravings. From the preface, "The intent of this book is to explore in Thomas Bewick's engravings and writings his interest in the subject of monuments, both personal and public". With an addendum and acknowledgments. Fine in the publisher's slipcase. Thomas Bewick (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1975. No. 55 of an edition limited to 100 (pp. 48). Tall octavo (23 cm) in soft brown publisher's cloth with matching slipcase, gilt titles and decoration; sixteen wood engravings by Bewick printed on fine calendered paper, text set in Baskerville. Portrait of Bewick together with a specially mounted print in a folding album by way of a frontispiece. A brief discussion of Bewick's wood engravings as monuments and memorials which appeared here and there in his work. A Fine copy of a handsome little book.…