Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7th Edition, x + 528 pages. Half-leather binding with marbled covers, red & gilt title label on spine. At some point it has been rebound using the original front and back covers. The marbled portion of the covers is scuffed. The text block is very tight. There is some foxing on a few pages but most are very clean. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: B A Downie Dog Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$277.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: bound in recent half-morocco, pages x, 528, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts, text generally clean and tight but a couple of gatherings (20 pages in all) are variously foxed, apparently a paper quality issue in this edition. Nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half-bound in light brown leather; Gilt stamped decoration, raised bands and tipped-on backstrip label to spine. Brown marbled paper covered boards. The Seventh Edition. Engraved illustrations throughout.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: x, 528 pp Engravings Original full Calf with attractive cecorative gilt tooling on spine, despite some wear. Five raised bands, original marbleized endpapers, inside margins of covers nicely tooled. Illustrated throughout, ca. 300 engravings in the text. A section of 20 pages has some foxing, o/w clean. Repair: detached Index pages reattached with 3 strips of Japan paper, covers reattached with well "camouflaged" cloth tape and a visible grey strip inside at front cover. Tear at top of spine repaire, loss of small piece. Wear along all edges. Still an attractive, solid copy.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$929.62 + shipping
Description: Front., vignette title, illus. WITH: A General History of Quadrupeds. 7th edn. Newcastle: printed by Edw. Walker, for T. Bewick. 1820. Vignette title, illus. WITH: A History of British Birds. 2 vols. Newcastle: printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick. 1821. Vignette title, illus. All three titles are nice clean copies. 4 vols., uniformly bound in contemp. half green calf by J. Winstanley, Manchester, faded gilt spine, later red morocco labels; sl. rubbed, corners bumped. An attractive set. Tattersfield TB 2.576, TB1.8 & TB1.22 noting that this is the first edition of British Birds to include the supplement which appears in two sections, separately paginated at the end of each volume. A fine set of three of Bewick's most notable works.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$970.70 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. x, 528. numerous wood engravings in the text, incl. title vignette. several gatherings foxed, otherwise a nice copy on thick paper, handsomely bound in full modern crushed morocco, gilt cover borders, spine gilt in compartments, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt. Seventh Edition. Hugo 51. Roscoe 7. cfRay, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 49.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A UNIFORMLY BOUND SET OF FOUR OF THOMAS BEWICK'S BEST KNOWN WORKS: BEWICK'S BRITISH BIRDS 2 Volumes; BEWICK'S FABLES OF AESOP; BEWICK'S HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS; BEWICK'S SELECT FABLES?As titled on the Spines. Five Volumes, in all. Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, For T. Bewick, 1820-1824. Various editions. Each volume illustrated with many text wood engravings by Bewick and others. Half chocolate toned calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red and brown contrasting labels, decorated in gilt. Over all a very good, very presentable set. Very clean within. The Two Volumes: A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS (The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick) are comprised of: Vol. I. CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF LAND BIRDS; And a Supplement, with Additional Figures. Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, For T. Bewick,1821. Xl + 330pp + 47pp (Supplement). Vol. II. CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF WATER BIRDS. And a Supplement, with Additional Figures Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, For T. Bewick,1821. Xxii + 360pp + 44pp (Supplement). Short closed tear to bottom area of one leaf in the Supplement. Vol. III. THE FABLES OF AESOP, and Others, with Designs on Wood by T. Bewick. The second edition. Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, For T. Bewick and Son, 1823. Xxiv + 376pp. Vol. VI. A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by EDW. Walker, For T. Bewick and Son, 1824. The eighth edition. X + 526pp. Small chip out of top edge of Index page, not affecting text. Vol. V. SELECT FABLES; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick. Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, For Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London,1820. Xl + 332pp. OVERALL A VERY PLEASING SET. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada