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Bewick, Thomas. Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Longman Green Lon., 1862.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in tan calf's skin with gilt lettering on spine. Attractive binding with a little rubbing. Unfortunately the front cover has become detached. It still looks attractive and sits tightly but requires re-glueing. End papers and page blocks are marbled. Small previous owner's note, in pencil from 1929. It appears this owner purchased the book that year in 1929. The description of the book from a booksellers catalog is affixed to the front endpaper. Numerous wood engravings.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Rear inner hinge is split. Front inner hinge is cracked. Spine has wear to the ends and the rear edge. A piece of the spine back strip has apparently been reglued. Front cover has some slight surface loss, a trace on the rear. ; "Embellished by numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the author for a work on British fishes, and never before published."
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A copy in good condition. First published in 1862. Original slightly worn and marked cloth. Browning to edges and pages opposite free endpapers. A few marks to spine and rubbing to base of spine. Some bumping to corners. Book covers slightly torn and separated from the binding (see images). All proceeds to Amnesty International UK.
Seller: Amnesty International UK Bookshop, London, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Bound in green cloth w/ gilt decoraion and lettering - Covers worn and faded w/ some markings and scratches - Edges rubbed w/ some dents - Spine ends and corners crushed - Edges of text block tanned and stained - pages 3/4 & 5/6 coming loose, though still attached - Pen ink stain to reverse of rear free endpaper - Page margins toned and foxed - Book ow/ solid and clean - xix/344 pages
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 344 pages. Small owner's inscription to endpaper and title page. Size: 8vo
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: xix, 344 pp. Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, designed and engraved by the author for a work on British fishes, and never before published. 8vo, publisher's pebbled cloth gilt-lettered on the spine. A few slight bubbles to the cloth of the rear panel; spine a little darkened; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jane Bewick / Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. Hardback, 8vo, xix,344pp, illust including frontis and 17 plates of British Fishes. Blanks, back of frontis and final text page a little foxed, hinges just tearing. Original blind-decorated green cloth, spine lettering gilt, slightly bumped, spine discoloured, slightly chipped and torn. A good copy. /0.7uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.28 + shipping
Description: Newcastle-on-Tyne, Printed by Robart Ward / London, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. XIX, 344 S. Mit zahlr. Holzschnitten im Text u. auf 36 Tafeln. 23 cm. HLdr d. Zeit mit reicher, dekorativer Rückenvergoldung u. Goldfileten auf d. Deckeln. Erste Ausgabe der Erinnerungen. Bewick begann mit der Niederschrift im November 1822, als seine Tochter Jane ihn zur Abfassung der Memoirs überredete, und beendete sie am 1. November 1828, sechs Tage vor seinem Tod.- Der englische Graphiker Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) revolutionierte in den letzten Jahren des 18. Jahrhunderts den Holzschnitt (vgl Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911), 3, S. 837). - Unteres Kapital angestoßen, dort auch am Gelenk leicht angeplatzt. Gutes Exemplar in einem hübschen Einband
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$133.02 + shipping
Description: 8vo, xix+344, illustrated, original half leather and marbled boards, a touch edge-worn, bookplate removed from front pastedown, very good. First edition, scarce.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. xix, [1], 344. Illustrated with numerous Bewick engravings. Contemporary binding by J. & E. Bumpus in half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers to match the boards, top edge gilt. Spine professionally repaired retaining the original spine. A very attractive and clean copy.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
BEWICK, Thomas. Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Written by Himself. , 1862.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: BEWICK, Thomas. Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Written by Himself. Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed and Engraved by the Author for a Work on British Fishes, and Never Before Published. Original cloth decorated in gilt and blind. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First edition. Faint toning, else very good or better.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$184.75 + shipping
Description: xix+344pp. 8vo. Original slightly worn and marked cloth. Browning to edges and pages opposite free endpapers. A very good copy. . First edition. Cut of funeral procession on p286 is thought to be the last cut engraved by Bewick. "This volume.presents a vivid impression of his character and is worthy of special mention."
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Thomas Bewick. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Longman, Greene, Longman, & Roberts, 1862.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine copy of this book, beautifully rebound in half leather with marbled boards, hubbed spine, gilt titles on spine. Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed and Engraved by the Author for a Work on British Fishes, and not previously Published. Frontispiece, three plates, 18 pages with woodcuts without text and versos blank (One appears to be an original engraving ?), title-page vignette, head and tail piece vignettes. First Edition. 8vo. [236 x 148 x 24 mm]. xix, [i], 344 pp. Born in Bishopswearmouth in Sunderland, in 1897 he moved to Houxty in Northumberland. Encouraged by his daughter Jane, Thomas Bewick began to write his 'Memoir' while at Tynemouth in the early autumn of 1822 and he penned the last chapter only a few weeks before his death in November 1828. In the late 1850s Jane finally undertook the task of editing the manuscript, and expressed frustration at the printer's own intrusions to the text. 1500 copies were printed, of which 800 were bound by Waters of Newcastle in green cloth.
Seller: Patrick Ayres, Angling & Hunting Books, Seiad Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longman Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. 1st edition. 8vo. i-xix + 344pp. With 18 plates and numerous head and tailpiece illustrations in text by T. Bewick. Green blind stamped cloth, gilt spine titling. Spine sun faded slightly. Very good. This title comes from the distinguished library of J. Fenwick Lansdowne (1937-2008), the award winning British Columbia artist and illustrator whose accurate and artistic depictions of birds are prized around the world by museums and collectors. HIS ARTISTICALLY DESIGNED BOOKPLATE IS TIPPED IN. The paintings of James Fenwick Lansdowne have been compared to those of John James Audubon. He's exhibited at the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, and Audubon House in New York.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, in a handsome contemporary binding, of the autobiography of Bewick, the finest wood engraver of his age. Written from 1822 to 1828 and here edited and posthumously published by his daughter, the Memoir remains the chief source for information of his life, and an important account of late 18th- and early 19th-century life. "His Memoir, published a generation after his death, brought about a new interest and a widening respect which has continued to grow ever since. The attraction to his contemporaries of Bewick's observations lay in their accuracy and amusement. Two centuries later these qualities are still recognized; but so, too, is the wealth and rarity of the historical information they have to offer" (Dixon, p. 278). Hugh Dixon, "Thomas Bewick and the North-Eastern Landscape", in Thomas Faulkner, Helen Berry, & Jeremy Gregory (eds.), Northern Landscapes, 2010. Octavo (213 x 132 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by William Smith (gilt stamp to initial blank, at 88 Nethergate in Dundee, where he operated 1862-5), spine lettered in gilt, gilt in compartments, red pebble-grain cloth sides, marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece after John Bewick; with illustrations throughout after Bewick's vignettes. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown of Peter Carmichael (1809-1891), textile manufacturer in Dundee. Single shallow gouge at head of rear joint, scattered very light foxing; an excellent, firm copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom