Accession number
PML 150190
Published
Newcastle : Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, sold by them, Longman and Co., London, and all booksellers, 1818.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
"To the youth of the British Isles"--Pref.
Includes index of fables.
1st ed.
The leaf preceding t.p. has the "thumb mark" (in the 2nd state, shorter form) receipt of Thomas Bewick, signed by Thomas Bewick and Robert Elliot Bewick and dated 1st October 1818. Also a vignette of Newcastle with sea-weed printed across it.
Includes index of fables.
1st ed.
The leaf preceding t.p. has the "thumb mark" (in the 2nd state, shorter form) receipt of Thomas Bewick, signed by Thomas Bewick and Robert Elliot Bewick and dated 1st October 1818. Also a vignette of Newcastle with sea-weed printed across it.
Description
[2], xxiv, 376 p. : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 27 cm.
Provenance
Book label of J.J. Chapman. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary diced calf.
Classification
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