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Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 volumes. Tall 8vo. Darkening to spines. Wear to spine labels of volumes. Slight rubbing to covers. Light edgewear to covers. Stains to spines of introduction volume and section 2 volume. White paint stain to tail of spine of section 1 volume. Contents are clean and bright. Fading to slipcase. Slight edgewear to slipcase with scraping to corners and inner top and bottom edges. Stains to front panel of slipcase. Damp staining to spine and top edge of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase. THE SET:
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter cream cloth with leather spine label, brown paper-covered boards with cloth tips and two matching cloth and paper-covered board portfolios, slipcase, large 8vo., 18 pages text + 100 wood engravings each in a printed Fabriano folder. One of 150 copies. The second portfolio of Bewick wood engravings printed by R. Hunter Middleton, 25 years after the first. After selecting what he considered the finest subjects, he employed painstaking care for make-ready and careful printing on a Washington hand press to achieve the best impressions ever made from these blocks. Each print is printed on Troya paper and inserted into a numbered Fabriano folder printed with the subject and its source. The bindings were designed by Albert Kner and carried out by Elizabeth Kner. The text volume, printed on Fabriano paper, is partially unopened. Prospectus and Christmas greetings card, printed from American Uncial type and bearing a Bewick wood engraving, are laid in. A fine set in a near fine cloth and paper-covered board slipcase showing light signs of use.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1633.10 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One hundred stunning wood engravings by Thomas Bewick in two beautifully presented portfolios with an introductory volume, enclosed in a slipcase. One of 150 limited edition copies of these two portfolios and an introductory volume in quarter cloth bindings, with leather spine labels and leather tips, in a clothbound slipcase. This set was printed by hand on TROYA paper.One hundred exquisitely detailed wood engravings, each in its own folder, contained between two very smart portfolios, by the English wood-engraver and natural history author Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Section 1 contains his wood engravings of birds and vignettes; Section 2 contains his wood engravings of quadrupeds and vignettes. With an introductory volume which includes acknowledgements and an index to the portfolios by James M. Wells, and a booklet explaining the background to the original 1945 publication and later 1970 publication of these wood engravings. Bewick is often considered to be the founder of high quality wood-engravings. He is best known for his A History of British Birds, admired mainly for its wood engravings, especially the small and humorous tail-pieces. He also notably illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables throughout his life.Collated, complete. In quarter cloth bindings in a clothbound slipcase. Externally, the portfolios and introductory volume are in excellent condition. Introductory volume is internally firmly bound, with very bright and clean pages. Folders and plates to the portfolios are very bright and clean. A little soiling to the bottom of the slipcase, with some shelf wear to the right-hand board, but otherwise very smart. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition. One of 150 copies. One hundred prints made from the original blocks engraved by Thomas Bewick. With an introduction by James M. Wells. One Introduction volume and 100 wood engravings in two separate portfolios: Birds & Vignettes, Section I; Quadrupeds & Vignettes, Section II. All three in quarter linen and brown paper boards, leather spine labels, leather tips. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Each portfolio contains 50 engravings laid into printed paper wrappers. The engravings were printed by R. Hunter Middleton from the original blocks at the Newberry Library. A handsome, fine copy, compete as issued.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.