Select fables : with cuts / designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784 ; together with a memoir, and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick.

Accession number

PML 3025

Published

Newcastle : Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Gradock, and Joy, London, 1820.

Notes

Contains fables by Aesop and others. Memoir and descriptive catalogue (p.[v]-xxxi) by John Trotter Brockett.
Includes index of fables.
Printed on imperial paper.
Woodcuts are partly executed by David Martin. Cf. M. Weekly. Bewick, p. 175. Frontispiece, portrait of T. Bewick, inserted; with other portraits of him, p. [xxv]-xxxi.

Description

[2], xl, 332 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm

Binding

Green morocco, gilt, by W. Nutt.

Classification

Book

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