BEWICK, Thomas. The Fables of Aesop, and others, with designs on wood, Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick, 1818, "imperial" 8°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies, with thumb-print receipt signed by Bewick inserted at the front, engraved portrait, wood-engraved illustrations by and after Bewick (portrait spotted, occasional light marginal spotting and browning), 19th-century calf gilt (lacks spine, extremities rubbed). [Roscoe 45a]