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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds; by Bewick, Thomas - 1805

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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds; by Bewick, Thomas - 1805

A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds;

by Bewick, Thomas

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Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1805. First & Second editions. Leather Bound. Full dark green morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. This copy, possibly a trimmed thick royal editions, variant A vignette on page 22 and uninked vignette on p. 285. First edition of Vol. I, second edition, Vol. II. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, triple gilt border fillets house an inner rectangle of fillets with gilt arabesques at the corners, light joint and extremity rubbing.
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  • Illustrator Bewick, Thomas
  • Format/Binding Leather Bound
  • Book Condition Used - Full dark green morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols
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  • Edition First & Second editions
  • Publisher Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick
  • Place of Publication Newcastle
  • Date Published 1805
  • Keywords Natural History

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A History of British Birds. Volume I: Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. and Volume II: Containing the History and Description of Water Birds. Both unbound in solander boxes

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Newcastle, England: Bewick/Longman & Co, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9"x5.5"). 406pp. & 374pp. +appendices. Both volumes unbound in black cloth-covered solander boxes & slipcovers with giltstamped titles to spines. Pages are single leaves (not signatures), stabbed as if for sewing along the left edge. Volume I is missing its title page: first leaf is an advertisement, followed by the preface & introduction. B&W engraved cuts throughout both volumes.
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History of British Birds Volume I

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Newcastle: Edward Walker; Longman and Rees, 1804-1821. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Thomas Bewick. The first edition of Thomas Bewick's history of British birds bound with a supplement published later in 1821, in leather binding. First edition of History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick in half morocco binding. This is Volume I only of the two volume set, discussing a History and Description of Land Birds. Bound with Part I of A Supplement to the History of British Birds, published in 1821. Densely illustrated with many in-text illustrations by Thomas Bewick, an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Collated and complete with the frontispiece. Includes a signed letter from the bookseller Horace G. Commin, based in Bournemouth, from 1909 addressed to C. H. Woodhouse, who bought this book from him. This work includes his book plate to the first pastedown. Prior to this, this work was from the library of a well knnwon Naturalist C. E. Morris of St Nicolas… Read More
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds

by Bewick, Thomas

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Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels in arabesque motifs and lettered in gilt.
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