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Bewick Gleanings
by Thomas Bewick / Julia Boyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
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About This Item
This is a
* Limited(250)edition,* Numbered(nr 96)copy,
* Signed by the editor Julia Boydof Bewick Gleenings 1886
Bewick, Thomas (illustrator); Boyd, Julia (editor)
Bewick Gleanings. Being Impressions from Copperplates and Wood Blocks Engraved in the Bewick Workshop, Remaining in the Possession of the Family Until the Death of the last Miss Bewick, and sold afterwards by the order of her Executors.
Printed/published/bound in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Andrew Reid 1886.
Original publisher's three-quarter black leather over green pebble-grain cloth. Spine with raised bands and gilt Title in top and place on bottom. Top edges gilt.
Previous owner's book-plate "Rousdon, Devon." on front inner board / blank-page / Title-page "Bewick Gleanings." / signature-page "Small Paper Copy, No 96 with signature of Julia Boyd" / tissue covered frontispiece with portrait of Thomas Bewick / Title-page with decorative woodcut / dedication-page "to my father" / ix - xv preface / xvi - xxiv List of Subscribers / Part I / errata-page / life of Thomas Bewick Page 1 - 108 with numerous woodblock engravings throughout the text / Part II / Bewick Gleanings page 1 - 100 again with numerous woodblock engravings / Index-page 101 - 104 / Plates I to LIII (all 53) which are all one-sided , mostly one-page some double-page and tissue-guarded. All from the original copperplates from Thomas Bewick.Tipped-in facsimile-letter of Bewick to John-Bailey dated 23-March-1815.
Overall good condition
A must-have for the Thomas Bewick collector.Works of Bewick referred to are also available; see my other adds.
* Limited(250)edition,* Numbered(nr 96)copy,
* Signed by the editor Julia Boydof Bewick Gleenings 1886
Bewick, Thomas (illustrator); Boyd, Julia (editor)
Bewick Gleanings. Being Impressions from Copperplates and Wood Blocks Engraved in the Bewick Workshop, Remaining in the Possession of the Family Until the Death of the last Miss Bewick, and sold afterwards by the order of her Executors.
Printed/published/bound in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Andrew Reid 1886.
Original publisher's three-quarter black leather over green pebble-grain cloth. Spine with raised bands and gilt Title in top and place on bottom. Top edges gilt.
Previous owner's book-plate "Rousdon, Devon." on front inner board / blank-page / Title-page "Bewick Gleanings." / signature-page "Small Paper Copy, No 96 with signature of Julia Boyd" / tissue covered frontispiece with portrait of Thomas Bewick / Title-page with decorative woodcut / dedication-page "to my father" / ix - xv preface / xvi - xxiv List of Subscribers / Part I / errata-page / life of Thomas Bewick Page 1 - 108 with numerous woodblock engravings throughout the text / Part II / Bewick Gleanings page 1 - 100 again with numerous woodblock engravings / Index-page 101 - 104 / Plates I to LIII (all 53) which are all one-sided , mostly one-page some double-page and tissue-guarded. All from the original copperplates from Thomas Bewick.Tipped-in facsimile-letter of Bewick to John-Bailey dated 23-March-1815.
Overall good condition
A must-have for the Thomas Bewick collector.Works of Bewick referred to are also available; see my other adds.
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Details
- Bookseller
- PSM Wiki Shop
(NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- b267
- Title
- Bewick Gleanings
- Author
- Thomas Bewick / Julia Boyd
- Illustrator
- Thomas Bewick
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's three-quarter black leather over green pebble-grain cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- limited (250) numbered (96) signed first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andrew Reid
- Place of Publication
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Date Published
- 1886
- Pages
- 108 + 104
- Size
- 24.5 x 20 x 6 cm
- Weight
- 4.44 lbs
- Keywords
- Bewick
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bewick;
Terms of Sale
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PSM Wiki Shop offers antique and vintage books and (often chromolithographic) prints from books that couln't be saved. (we never rip books apart!). We sell mainly to book and print collectors and for interior architecture and design.
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