A General History of Quadrupeds with the figures engraved on wood by T Bewick by Thomas Bewick - 1790

England: Ward Lock, 1970. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. brick cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 525 pp.

Ward Lock, 1970. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Thomas Bewick. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 526 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket has a small closed tear, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges browned slightly. Illustrator: Thomas Bewick. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Animals & Birds; 18th century; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 34182. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Newcastle:: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick,, 1809-1811.. Quadrupeds: The Sixth edition.. 19th c. half morocco and marbled sides and edges.. Age-toning to text throughout; both volumes tight and sound with some light rubbing to the bindings.. 8vo,. Illustrated with figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. .

Newcastle: Edward Walker, 1816. Sixth. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in matching contemporary green morocco, gilt tooling, all edges gilt, worn at the corners, each neatly rebacked, spines a bit dull and sunned, but attractive and sound. Two volumes of birds published 1816 and Quadrupeds published 1811, the 4th edition of water birds, 6th of land and the 6th of Quadrupeds, each illustrated throughout with lovely Bewick woodcuts. Scattered mostly minor foxing, heavier early on. Quadrupends a bit age toned, generally. 329pp, 361, (1), pp; 525, (1)pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). 3-volume set (complete). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Animals & Birds; Inventory No: 045214.

Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick, 1797. Three volumes, 1797-1804; Volume One - Land Birds, [3], iv-xxx, [3], 2-335pp, [1]; [3], 2-46pp, [2]; Volume Two - Water Birds, [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-400pp; [3], 2-43pp, [1]; [1], 2-7pp, [1]; and Volume Three - Quarupeds, x, [1], 2-525pp, [1]. Uniform later (probably mid-nineteenth century) full morocco for the bookseller George Rutland, raised bands, spines in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, volume and running title to third, with author to fourth, place and date to foot, remaining panels with double line frame surrounding four quadrilobe corner pieces joined by a single line with small tools to each gap, covers with double line border, surrounding a two line double panel design with fleuron corner pieces, roll to edges, and a double line to inner edges, a.e.g. with non-pareil marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, especially outer joints, corners bumped. Lightly browned and foxed throughout, a few instances of pencil… Read More

New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. First American edition. x, 531 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern half brown morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Occasional light spotting, old signature of William S. Barnes on title. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. x, 531 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America's first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth edition as the source from which Anderson worked. "It was his major work in these first years." The book is important in America as the means by which many Americans became familiar with the Bewick Quadrupeds, and also because Anderson and other engravers "in the future used Bewick's illustrations as an encyclopedia from which they could draw in order to depict animals both native and foreign." Roscoe devotes a substantial appendix to this edition. Hugo, "Some of the… Read More