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BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). History of British Birds. Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Beilby and Bewick, 1797-1804. 2 volumes, 8° (248 x 147mm). 261 woodcut illustrations and numerous vignettes. (Occasional light browning.) Green morocco gilt by Bedford, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper cover of vol. II a little marked). FIRST EDITION with most of the variants in the first state. Roscoe 14c and 17c.

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BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). History of British Birds. Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Beilby and Bewick, 1797-1804. 2 volumes, 8° (248 x 147mm). 261 woodcut illustrations and numerous vignettes. (Occasional light browning.) Green morocco gilt by Bedford, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper cover of vol. II a little marked). FIRST EDITION with most of the variants in the first state. Roscoe 14c and 17c.

BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). Select Fables, with Cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick ... with a Memoir and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick. Newcastle: by S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, 1820. 8° (277 x 162mm). Portrait of Thomas Bewick on india paper, numerous woodcut illustrations and vignettes. (Occasional light offsetting and spotting.) Green morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Baron Battersea (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. A different collection of fables to that which appeared in 1784. In this copy pp.179-82 are duplicated with different vignettes on p.180. With Bewick Gleanings (Newcastle, 1886); D.C. Thomson's The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick (London, 1882); and A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself (Newcastle, 1862). (6)
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