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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 142341
Published
Newcastle : Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Includes a wood engraved frontispiece portrait of Bewick, with additional portraits of him reproduced from various sources on p. [xxv]-xxi; illustrated throughout with wood engraved head- and tailpieces.
Contains fables by Aesop and others, with a memoir and descriptive catalogue (p. [v]-xxxi) by John Trotter Brockett.
Includes index of fables.
Description
[2], xl, 332 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (wood engravings), ports. ; 24 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Diced russia.
Classification
Department