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Newcastle upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1971., 1971. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the 1826 Sixth Edition, limited to 950 copies. Octavo, pp. [4], iii, [1], xliv, 382; [4], iii, [1], xxii, 432. Illustrated throughout with Bewick's woodcut illustrations of the birds, and head- and tail-pieces. Publishers' faux leather in dark green and royal blue respectively, with silver and gilt titles and vignettes to spines and wood-grain and marbled effect endpapers, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jackets. Boards bruised to lower edge and top edges a little dusty (both volumes) otherwise clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets lightly toned, and creased top edge. A Very Good set. The forerunner of all modern field guides, Bewick's 'History of British Birds' changed the public's perception of the natural world; it is a landmark in natural history illustration and is one of the most important illustrated books ever printed. This edition is a facsimile of the last edition seen through the press by…
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A History of British Birds Vol. I Containing the History and Description of Land Birds [with] Vol II. Water Birds.
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A history of British Birds: Volume I: History and description of land birds
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A History of British Birds Vol. I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds
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Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847 Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This edition, Volume One only, "...contains about 20 additional vignettes, not before published, which were designed and engraved by Bewick, being part of a series intended by him as embellishments for a History of British Fishes, on which he was engaged at the time of his death.".
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. and Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. Both unbound in solander boxes
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Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.
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A History of British Birds. 2 Volumes (Set). Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds
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Charles Henry Cook, 1832. ~Bookplate to Volume I. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Half black polished calf, re-backed in matching calf with original back-strips laid down. 2 original gilt labels per Volume. Fine floral decorated green cloth to boards. General moderate wear. Eleven illustrations annotated in an early nineteenth-century, very disapproving, possibly Evangelical hand, e.g 'cruel', 'profane', 'the dreadful sin of suicide', 'drunkenness is a sin'.~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . Hardcover. Good+. xl, 386 + xxii, 424pp. Many illus. Binding sound.
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Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works in 5 Vols. [Volumes I and II: British Birds, Volume III: History of Quadrupeds, Volume IV: Aesop's Fables, Volume V: Memoir [complete]
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Bernard Quaritch , 1885 . Hardback. . 5 vols. half calf with gilt titles, marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated. The picture on the listing page is of the actual books for sale. 5 volumes ex-City and County of Norwich Public Library. All vols. have library sticker on pastedown, library coloured and blind stamps sporadically throughout. Signed by the publisher (Bernard Quaritch) on limitation page of Volume 1. Good/Good+ condition. Vols. 1 has tender front hinge and in Vol. 2 it has split. Calf on all vols. is generally scuffed and worn. pages gently age-tanned. Worn white library mark on spines.
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A History of British Birds. Vol. I: Land Birds [and] Vol. II: Water Birds
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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1816. xxxviii, (43)-329, [1]; xxii, (19)-361, [1], text engravings. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo in 4s, cont. half leather, marbled boards (rubbed/scuffed), rebacked; hinges neatly reinforced. Small ownership stamps and bookbinder's ticket (John Cain, Bookbinder, Douglas) to pastedowns. Some foxing througout. Good set.. Illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Vol. I: Land Birds - 6th edition; Vol. II: Water Birds - 4th edition. Pagination as in Roscoe.Roscoe, 22 & 23.Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a passionate naturalist, a son of nature, as Audubon called him, a man immersed in the English countryside. He is considered as Englands most masterly engraver, and his books, History of British Birds (2 vols first published 1797, 1804) are illustrated with Bewick's wood engravings. Bewick created these books with the purpose of instructing the youth, remarking on his illustrations,
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds
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Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels in arabesque motifs and lettered in gilt.
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History of British Birds. Vol. I: Land Birds [and] Vol. II: Water Birds
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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1797-1804. xxx, [2], 335, [1]-ad; xx, 400, numerous wood engravings, vignettes, etc.. . HB. 2 vols, roy. 8vo (240x148mm), 19th-century full panelled calf, gt, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments and turn-ins, aeg, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed; front inner hinges cracked but firm. A finely bound set.. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. First editions.Vol. I: Roscoe 14c (Thin royal), variant A; advert to final leaf is for third edition of <i>Quadrupeds</i>; Vol. II: Roscoe 17c (Thin royal), variant A.Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was a passionate naturalist, a son of nature, as Audubon called him, a man immersed in the English countryside. He is considered as Englands most masterly engraver, and his books are illustrated with his charming wood engravings. Bewick created these books with the purpose of instructing the youth, remarking on his illustrations,
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A History of British Birds.: [Vol. I:] Containing the History and Description of Land Birds; [Vol. II:] Containing the History and Description of Water Birds.
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Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick; Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick,, 1797 & 1804. A milestone in wood engraving and a classic bird book First edition of volume II, second edition of volume I, both demy octavo issues and attractively bound. Bewick's exquisitely engraved illustrations of British birds established his reputation as one of the country's best engravers and are widely considered to be his finest work. Bewick's books were six years in the making and eventually published to even greater acclaim than the Quadrupeds of 1790. "Apart from the excellence of the principal figures, the numerous tailpiece vignettes that enlivened every spare space in the book came in for special notice... Apart from lovingly observed landscape settings, the narrative content of many of Bewick's tailpieces is often ironic and displays a mordant view of the world and human folly... Any comparison of Bewick's work with that of his predecessors makes clear how original it appeared at the…
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