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Thomas Bewick. A General History of Quadrupeds. Printed by Edward Walker, for T Bewick and S Hodgson, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1807.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good copy of the 5th edition in largely contemporary full calf binding which has been expertly rebacked with a newer spine with gilt compartments, title label and blind stamped designs. The boards have gilt lining, gilt decoration at board edges (some rubbed off) and gilt dentelles to the inner board edges. There is some scuffing to both boards and light wear at the corners, but the binding is very clean and sound. Endpapers are marbled. Contents: initial blank; title; advert 2pp; index pp v-x with errata; text pp 1-519 with numerous delicate wood engravings; Addenda pp 520-525 - introducing 2 new species (wombat and platypus); ad 1p; final blank. Original page marker present. Contents are very clean and sound. Paper is toned to varying degrees and there is occasional spotting - noticeable in the text next to the gutter of pp 447-450. P 301/302 has lost part of the side edge - this does not affect the text.

Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

Thomas Bewick. A General History of Quadrupeds. Edward Walker, Newcastle, 1807.

Price: US$383.37 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick and S. Hodgson.1807. The Fifth Edition. With lovely bucolic vignettes. Half leather with marble boards and raised bands to spine. Gilt title label. Attractive binding. marble to page ends. No inscriptions. Clean tight copy with some spotting. In the addenda, Bewick includes an early mention of two Australian species-- the figures and descriptions of two very rare animals, sent from New South Wales, by James Hunter, Esq. Governor of that settlement . The two animals are the Wombach (sic) and an as yet unnamed amphibious animal with a bill similar to that of a duck. Smart and sympathetically re-binding with original boards.

Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom

Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. Edw. Walker; T Bewick; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1807.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Fully bound in light brown leather; Gilt stamped lettering and lines to spine. The fifth edition. Engraved illustrations throughout.

Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada

Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1807.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Fifth edition. 8vo. Pp x, 525. 1 page publisher's advert. Wood engraved figures in the text. Full calf, expertly re-spined. The boards show wear. Still a handsome copy.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

BEWICK, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. [IMPERIAL PAPER COPY]. T[homas] Bewick and S[arah] Hodgson, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1807.

Price: US$1007.15 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Imperial 8vo; pp. [portrait frontis.], x, 525, [1, ads]. SCARCE IMPERIAL PAPER COPY OF BEWICK'S QUADRUPEDS, WITH GOOD PROVENANCE. A wonderful copy of this work, featuring excellent impressions of more than 330 wood engravings by Bewick. Begun on 15 November 1785 (the day of his father's death), A General History of Quadrupeds is the book that made Bewick's reputation. This 1807 (5th) edition is the first edition published after Bewick's dispute with Sarah Hodgson and is one of the best of all editions of the Quadrupeds (it was this edition used for the 1970 reprint). It was issued on 23 May, printed on Demy, Royal and Imperial paper stock; this is the finest of the three (Imperial), with heavy wove paper and the 1804 watermark throughout. The price at the time of issue was £1 11s 6d. Although Roscoe has no data for the number of copies of the 1807 edition, the number of Imperial copies was probably around 150 (based on the known number of Imperial copies of the 4th edition). The 1807 edition features many textual revisions and minor amendments by Bewick to his illustrations, and saw the first publication of his engraving of the Musk Bull (p.49). In addition to the figures of the animals themselves, there are more than 100 vignettes, amongst the most delightful images in the history of engraving (see photographs). A finely bound copy, with two book plates, one of noted book collector Percy William Pegge, and another of the landowner, racehorse breeder Sir Humphrey Francis de Trafford (1862-1929). As in a handful of other copies, Ranson's 1816 engraved portrait of Bewick is included as a frontispiece. Very good condition: neatly rebacked with recent endpapers; leather binding with gilt decoration, and all edges gilt; spine a little worn; internally very good, noting only some minor foxing to the first few leaves. Roscoe 5a.

Seller: Boris Jardine Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom