Accession number
PML 3024
Published
Newcastle : Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, sold by them, Longman and Co., London, and all booksellers, 1818.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"To the youth of the British Isles"--Pref.
1st ed.
Includes index of fables.
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.
1st ed.
Includes index of fables.
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
Formerly owned by William Lorance Rogers (armorial bookplate, motto: nos nostra que deo), Th. Irwin.
Binding
Dark blue morocco, gilt; in PML case.
Classification
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Department