BEWICK, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1790. 8, wood-engraved illustrations by Thomas Bewick, finely-bound in contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers with wide gilt roll-tool border, spine elbaorately gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e., armorial bookplate of Samuel Boddington. FIRST EDITION. Huth p.56; Roscoe 1b (Variant A).