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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 53

BEWICK (THOMAS)
A Selection of Wood Engravings. Being Impressions from Original Wood-blocks, NUMBER 21 OF 25 COPIES BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO, Newcastle, T. Bewick and Son, 1818 (3)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BEWICK (THOMAS)

A Selection of Wood Engravings. Being Impressions from Original Wood-blocks, NUMBER 21 OF 25 COPIES BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO, from an overall edition of 140 copies, engraved plates, crushed red morocco gilt, preserved in fabric-lined solander box, gilt morocco spine label, 1980; Thomas Bewick. A Commemoration, ONE OF 40 COPIES bound in quarter morocco, from an overall edition of 100 copies, wood-engraved plates taken from the original blocks, 1978, Newcastle, small 4to, D. Esslemont; The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs of Woodcut, with Bewick's printed thumb-mark receipt tipped in before title, wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes by Thomas Bewick, ownership gift inscription (dated January 1819) from William Turner of Newcastle to Thomas Brown of Newgrove on the front free endpaper, contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, Newcastle, T. Bewick and Son, 1818 (3)

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Provenance: The Library of the late A.J. Karter.

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