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Price: US$120.46 + shipping
Description: 4th Ed. Demy 8vo. 13 x 20.5cm. 224 figures, 109 vignettes tail pieces &c., 1 text figure. [i] Advert. + x + 525pp. + [i] Errata. With the bookplate and signature across t.p. of Catherine Elizabeth Coote, some browning, speckled calf boards, some minor loss to edges and marking, rebacked with much of original spine laid down, gilt ruled spine with gilt lettered title label. Thomas Bewick (17531828) English wood-engraver and natural history author.Roscoe 4c variant A. 1000 copies. 302 descriptions of quadrupeds, &c. including animals from "Adive" to "Zorilla". It is particularly thorough on some of the domestic animals: the first entry describes the horse. US$119
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: x, 525, [1] pp. Last page the Errata. Fully illustrated with Bewick's 334 incomparable figures, head-pieces, vignettes, etc. Royal 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-5/8" In addition to textual revisions, and new cuts [12], this 4th Edition is "notable for the introduction of 'scientific' names . This edition is comparatively common at the present time in the imperial and demy sizes; of the royal size I have traced only two copies." [Roscoe]. Spine lightly sunned. Minor rubbing to joint leather. Bookplate of the "Honorable & Reverend L. Barrington". A pleasing VG copy. Period dark blue straight grain full morocco binding. Marbled eps & edges 4th Edition, Imprint Variant A (Roscoe 4b).
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: Fourth edition, Imperial copy on thick white wove paper; 8vo; engraved vignette on title page, title variant A (without Bell and Rivington in imprint) and 'Price One Guinea' (denoting imperial copy) on title, 200 wood-engravings by Bewick, 104 smaller vignettes; nineteenth century red morocco gilt extra by J. Clarke, covers with gilt panel with floral tooling to corners within gilt borders, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt with floral tools within framed borders, raised bands with gilt fillets, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, a fine copy; x, 526 pp. This edition includes thirteen new figures, one of which, the Spotted Hyena replaced an earlier figure; a rearrangement of the text, along with descriptions of the new figures. This edition is the first to include scientific names and is also the fist edition to appear in imperial form. Freeman, 305; Nissen ZBI, 351; Roscoe 4a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom