[Rarebooks] FS: Thomas Bewick

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration, from our Catalog #11 Books about Books/ 
Bibliography/ Fine Printing:

Roscoe, S.  Thomas Bewick, a bibliography raisonne of editions of The 
general history of quadrupeds, The history of British birds, and The fables 
of Aesop issued in his lifetime.  London, New York, Toronto, Geoffrey 
Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953. Original cloth. Fine in 
darkened dust jacket missing pieces at the head of the backstrip and the 
lower edge of the front panel. First edition. 198 pp. 55 numbered figures. 
7 appendices and index.  no. 65450.  $ 100.00

Avianus.  The curse of envy, an Aesopic fable by Avianus translated from 
the Latin by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated with an original wood engraving by 
Thomas Bewick.  Menomonie, Wisconsin, The Vagabond Press, 1969. Original 
quarter brown cloth and decorated paper boards. Fine. One of 70 numbered 
copies. Designed and printed by Lloyd Whydotski. Text in Latin and English. 
Four locations in WorldCat.  no. 66434.  $100.00

Bewick, Thomas.  A frail memorial: being selections from the writings and 
engravings of Thomas Bewick. Selected by William Hesterberg.  Chicago, The 
Cherryburn Press [1975]. Original brown cloth. Fine in publisher's box. One 
of 100 numbered copies. 47 pp. Prospectus laid in.  no. 66457.  $150.00

Bewick, Thomas.  21 engravings.  St. Charles, Illinois, Privately Printed, 
1951. Original quarter blue leather and patterned paper boards. Backstrips 
darkened, otherwise fine in publisher's box darkened at the edges. 2 v. One 
of 500 copies printed at the Printing Office of Philip Reed, Chicago. 
Printed on Ragston-S-N paper. 21 engravings in each volume, from original 
blocks.  no. 66461.  $100.00

Bewick, Thomas.   The watercolours and drawings of Thomas Bewick and his 
workshop apprentices. Introduced and with editorial notes by Iain Bain. 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press [1981]. Original gray cloth. Fine 
in fine publisher's box. 2 v.  no. 66462.  $200.00

Ruzicka, Rudolph.  Thomas Bewick, engraver.  [New York] The Typophiles, 
1943. Original quarter cloth and paste paper boards. Fine. Chap book 8. 
Number 401 of a total of 615 numbered copies. 70 pp. Designed by Rudolph 
Ruzicka.  no. 67072.  $50.00

Williams, Gordon R.   Fantasy in a wood-block, or what occurred when John 
James Audubon, the naturalist, visited with Thomas Bewick, the 
wood-engraver, in the year 1827.  Chicago, the Caxton Club, 1972. Original 
quarter black cloth and purple paste paper boards. Fine. With a print taken 
by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving 
at the time. One of 500 copies. Designed by Greer Allen. 12 pp., followed 
by a plate showing the wood-block and two plates showing the use of the 
burin.  no. 67194.  $50.00

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