Last Autobiographical Notes Thomas Bewick (3 results)

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 standard copies, pp.(36); 2 portraits & 2 folding facsimiles in colour; silhouette portrait printed from the original block; fine in cloth-backed marbled boards. Bookplate of the author laid in. Diary Illustration Private Press.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. An unpublished autobiographical note record of engraver, Thomas Bewick, made in the last months of his life, accompanied by commentary by Bewick scholar, Iain Bain. One of 200 copies of the standard edition, including colour tipped in portrait of Bewick at frontis, along 5 other tipped-in items, including facsimile notes made by Bewick and a Bewick engraving, 'Waiting for Death', for his 'Fables of Aesop' (1818). Hardback book, size: 6" x 6.25", bound in quarter cloth and boards covered in marbled paper made by Antonio Velez Celemin. New. Recommended - a lovely book, now out of print.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 3/11/2016 Upper Denby: The Fleece Press. 200 copies printed. Squ.8vo (15cm). Pp.[viii, 23]. Printed in Bulmer on Magnani Avorio Biblos paper. Six tipped-in illusts, two in colour. Qtr. cloth, marbled boards, by The Fine Bindery. New.