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Newcastle-upon Tyne: Thomas Bewick et al., 1790. First edition (index, viii, 456) with numerous wood engravings by Bewick. Tall octavo, rebacked in new three-quarter leather over original polished calf; new silver gilt titles on new label; new endpapers; five pages with repaired tears (archival tape). Thomas Bewick (1753- 1828), a contemporary of William Blake, confined his work to more ordinary subjects than those addressed by that mystic poet- engraver. The General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and the History of British Birds (1797) are Bewicks most important works, each of which was issued in a number of editions in his lifetime. A complete description of his work as an engraver, however, comprises two entire volumes (1867- 68). Bewicks Memoir, published by a daughter in 1862, describes an early impulse to draw [which] constantly filled the margins of his schoolbooks. To his rustic neighbours [he] became an eminent painter, and the walls of their houses were ornamented with an abundance [of] rude productions. Bewicks third great work, completed late in life, was an edition of the Fables of Aesop. Bewick (and those who worked for him) produced wood engravings to decorate, illustrate, and enhance all manner of publications-- more than eighty small books for children... commissioned by some eighteen printers and booksellers... such titles as The Tale of Tommy Trip, Cinderella, Goody Goosecap, and Jack Dandy, as well as many books of fables and riddles and manuals for spelling and reading (ODNB). [See our catalogue number 951/952 Thomas Hugo. The Bewick Collector. Volume I: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick, including Cuts, in various states, for Books and Pamphlets, Private Gentlemen, Public Companies, Exhibitions, Races, Newspapers, Shop Cards, Invoice Heads, Bar Bills, Coal Certificates, Broadsides... and Wood Blocks. Volume II: A Supplement to a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Thomas and John Bewick; Consisting of Additions to the various Divisions of Cuts, Wood Blocks, etc., Enumerated in that Work. London: Lovell, Reeve and Co., 1866. London: L. Reeve and Co., 1868. See also our Thomas Bewick Marginal Drawings & Notes.] If you look closely at the vignettes here in Quadrupeds (A magnifying glass helps), you will discovery ironic little slices of ordinary life: a traveller tries crossing a stream on stilts or by vaulting with too short a pole. The best biographical account of Bewicks early career, a time when he partnered, and struggled, with Ralph Beilby (who inserted his name as author as the ms went to the printer), is Jenny Uglow who says in Natures Engraver, Bewick brought nature to life, and revived the nearly forgotten art of wood engraving (306) . A few lightly foxed preliminaries and it will taken a while for the shine to wear off the new leather, but still a clean, delightful copy of the first edition of Bewicks first important work.
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