Djurillustrationer av Bewick
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BEWICK, THOMAS and JOHN. Select fables, with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others... together with a memoir, and a descriptive catalogue of the works of messrs. Bewick. Newcastle - London (S. Hodgson - Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy) 1820.
8:o. Frontespiece portrait, title with vignette, numerous wood engravings in the text by Thomas and John Bewick.
Contemporary brown full leather, somewhat worn, gilt border, new spine with old gilt and worn spine laid down. Partly some offsetting from the woodcuts. Bookplates of Edward Bellamy and Robert Palk Mogridge.
Most of the woodcuts had appeared previously in a 1784 edition of fables, but some of them have been altered or retouched by Charlton Nesbit.
The renovation of the binding made by Stellan Lindskog.
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Auktionsnummer:
122750
Datum:
2012-03-26