Select Fables; With Cuts Designed and Engraved from Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. xl, 332 pages. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece of Thomas Bewick by Charlton Nesbit after William Nicholson, 4 other wood-engraved portraits of Thomas Bewick, title vignette, 166 illustrations, 174 vignette decorations, by Thomas and John Bewick and others. Bound in full black gilt, with marbled fore-edges. 235 x 155 mm. First edition thus. Bookplates of Michael Ernest Sadler and Richard Clegg Watson. Front inner joints cracked; binding rubbed at joints; one signature spotted; else a very good clean copy.
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