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(Anderson, Alexander) Pomeroy, Jane R. ALEXANDER ANDERSON, 1775-1870, WOOD ENGRAVER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
3 Volumes New Castle, DE and Worcester, MA Oak Knoll Press and The American Antiquarian Society 2005 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover w/ slip case 2600 pages
First Edition. This three volume, comprehensive bibliography focuses on the important American wood engraver, Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). The author has selected over 1,000 of Anderson's engravings to illustrate this major bibliography. This work begins with a well written and researched biography of Anderson. There are over 2,322 entries. By the early nineteenth century, Alexander Anderson was recognized as this country's preeminent illustrator. Called the father of wood engraving in America, and one of its masters, his prodigious work filled publications of every kind: separate prints, almanacs, fiction, travel, children's books, poetry, Bibles, religious tracts, medical texts, and broadsides. He is noted for his warm and often slyly humorous depictions of children in the large number of juvenile publications that he illustrated. The growing number of wood engravers and illustrators who followed Anderson owed a debt to his skill and universally acclaimed artistic sense. He set a standard for successors who worked in the medium he had introduced.
This study names and analyzes the publications where Anderson's work can be found. There are three indices provided, one of authors and titles, a second of printers, publishers and booksellers, and a third of artists and engravers. Libraries, museums, book collectors and dealers, and all those interested in graphic arts will be able to identify Anderson's work and add to the history of American nineteenth-century book illustration. No understanding of American illustration is complete without an examination of Anderson's appealing and masterly engravings. Co-published with The American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 88121

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(Bewick, Thomas) Aesop FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD
Newcastle Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1823 8vo. mid-nineteenth century full diced calf xxiv, 376 pages
Second edition copy from a limited edition of 1000. An illustrated version of the classical Aesop's Fables, with illustrations by the English wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). This is a Demy copy. (See Roscoe, 1953, 165-170). Recased, preserving original calf binding. Free endpaper with archival paper repairs along edges. Occasional spotting and some of the page corners bent inward. Signature by previous owner in brown ink on the free front endpaper. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 75652

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(Bewick, Thomas) Anderton, Basil CATALOGUE OF THE BEWICK COLLECTION (PEASE BEQUEST).
New Castle City and County of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Public Libraries Committee (1904) large 8vo.. later library buckram. (iv), viii, 110 pages.
First edition, second impression "with a few minor alterations." Lists 331 items pertaining to the life and works of artist Thomas Bewick collected over forty years by John William Pease. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Indexed. Contains frontispiece of Bewick from James Ramsay's picture "The Lost Child." Ex library copy with markings including the library name perforated on the title page.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107744

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(Bewick, Thomas and John) Hugo, Thomas THE BEWICK COLLECTOR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS AND JOHN BEWICK; INCLUDING CUTS, IN VARIOUS STATES, FOR BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, PRIVATE GENTLEMEN, PUBLIC COMPANIES, EXHIBITIONS, RACES, NEWSPAPERS ... AND WOOD BLOCKS. With A SUPPLEMENT TO A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE...
2 volumes. London Lovell Reeve and Co. 1866, 1868 small 4to. contemporary leather with spine covering missing, all edges gilt. xxiii,562,24; xxxii,353,(3) pages.
First editions. Includes illustrations in books, pamphlets, exhibitions, invoice heads, broadsides, wood blocks, and other mediums. Very scarce in first edition and more desirable than the reprint because of the quality of the illustrations. Rubbed with some wear along hinges.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 39425

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(Bewick, Thomas and John) Hugo, Thomas THE BEWICK COLLECTOR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS AND JOHN BEWICK; INCLUDING CUTS, IN VARIOUS STATES, FOR BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, PRIVATE GENTLEMEN, PUBLIC COMPANIES, EXHIBITIONS, RACES, NEWSPAPERS ... AND WOOD BLOCKS. With A SUPPLEMENT TO A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE...
2 volumes. London Lovell Reeve and Co. 1866, 1868 thick 8vo. later library buckram. xxiii,562,24; xxxii,353,(3) pages.
First editions. Includes illustrations in books, pamphlets, exhibitions, invoice heads, broadsides, wood blocks, and other mediums. Very scarce in first edition and more desirable than the reprint because of the quality of the illustrations. Ex library copy with markings and library name perforated on the title page.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 107813

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(Bewick, Thomas) Bain, Iain. THOMAS BEWICK VIGNETTES, BEING TAIL-PIECES ENGRAVED PRINCIPALLY FOR HIS GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS & HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS.
London The Scolar Press 1978 small 8vo. quarter cloth, dust jacket. 25, 167 pages.
Contains over 300 of Bewick's tail-pieces, featuring a variety of subjects.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 35069

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(Bewick, Thomas) Garrison, W.P. THOMAS BEWICK
N.P. UCLA 1982 small 16mo stiff paper wrappers not paginated
Limited to 100 copies. The nine illustrations have been printed from photoengravings of Bewick's original work. A pamphlet of excerpts from an article by W.P. Garrison titled "Thomas Bewick," which appeared more than one hundred years ago in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Slight shelf wear.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 97491

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(Bewick, Thomas) Ruzicka, Rudolph THOMAS BEWICK, ENGRAVER
New York The Typophiles 1943 tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (ii), 70, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 not for subscribers. The 8th Chap Book. Contains numerous engravings and woodcuts. Fine.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 6084

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(Bewick, Thomas) Ruzicka, Rudolph THOMAS BEWICK, ENGRAVER
New York The Typophiles 1943 tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (ii), 70, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. Contains numerous engravings and woodcuts. Pencil presentation on free endpaper "To Richard Harwell with the sincere regard of R. Ruzicka, May 27, 1962." With Ruzicka small booklabel. Abrased spots on front cover.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 93708

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(Bookplates) Tattersfield, Nigel BOOKPLATES BY BEILBY & BEWICK, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
London and New Castle The British Library and Oak Knoll Press 1999 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 384 pages.
Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world. This account offers several hundred bookplates engraved on copper and wood, executed and printed in the workshop over a period of 89 years. It is quite the most extensive and thorough study of this subject in its use of primary sources. The author's lively enthusiasm and careful scholarship have combined to produce a valuable and truly pioneering work on a subject clouded by speculation and optimistic attribution until now. Nigel Tattersfield has taken full advantage of the recently-opened archives of Beilby & Bewick to reveal a vast range of work, from banknotes and inscriptions in silver, to the making of type punches and bottle moulds. The workshop's surviving records are unique in their diversity and quantity. In recent years, the records have been used in the study of engraved silver, pottery transfers, and the preparatory studies for Bewick's wood engravings. Bookplates is fully illustrated, with over 300 examples, and its wealth of biographical information on the owners of the bookplates represents an important contribution to the social history of the north of England.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 54988

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Buchanan-Brown, John EARLY VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY 1820-1860.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2005 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket 320 pages.
First edition. Writing over fifty years ago, the bibliographer Percy Muir noted that the 'immediate post-Bewick period' had been 'unduly neglected,' and this is still true today. In this major new study, John Buchanan-Brown remedies this neglect and demonstrates the importance of the period from 1820 to 1860 in the history of the illustrated book. These years saw the establishment of the technique of end-grain wood-engraving as the dominant medium of graphic reproduction. Its great advantage was that, as a relief process, it could reproduce both the image and the text simultaneously, and this allowed the publishing industry to feed what had become an insatiable appetite for illustrated books and journals.
Although end-grain engraving was an English phenomenon, it was the French who first applied the process to book design. In turn, German illustrators were to influence the style of British illustrators. Thus, wood-engraving naturally plays a leading role in this study, but it does not overshadow the other means of graphic reproduction employed during this period: lithography, chromolithography, and steel-engraving and etching.
The study illustrates the work of French and German artists and their influence upon their British counterparts. The pioneering study also includes appendices on aspects of wood- and steel-engraving in England, notes on French and German illustrators, and a glossary of technical terms. It is illustrated by some 250 reproductions in black-and-white, and eight pages in color. Heavily bumped along top corner.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 97934

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(Children's books) Alderson, Brian & Felix de Marez Oyens BE MERRY AND WISE: ORIGINS OF CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND, 1650-1850
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2006 9 x 12 inches hardcover, dust jacket 320 pages
When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book making, but when did children come to be seen as a readership for whom special provision should be made? The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realize that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market.
In conducting their survey, which is centered upon the books themselves, mostly drawn from the holdings of the Morgan Library, the authors not only plot the chronological development of children's book publishing from almost random beginnings to the diversity of the early Victorian period, they also show how publishers adapted their trade methods to exploit this new market. Sweetness and light did not prevail everywhere, but, even in some of the most forbidding examples presented here, there was a commercial optimism that both merriment and wisdom might be happily combined, within the pages of children's literature. Co-published with the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, and The British Library.

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 90644

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Cole, John BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR FROM SCARBOROUGH TO THE LIBRARY OF A PHILOBIBLIST, IN ITS NEIGHBORHOOD.
Scarborough John Cole et al. 1824 8vo. modern quarter calf, five raised bands, maroon calf gilt spine label, marbled paper-covered boards, uncut. (ii), iv, 92+(1) pages.
First edition, a large paper copy. The total edition size was 158 copies, of which 100 were printed on small paper, 50 copies on large paper, and 8 on colored paper (Lowndes p.491). The large paper copies are different from the small paper copies in the following ways: the book block measures 22 cm rather than 20 cm; the title page contains a view of Hunmanby, rather than a quote from Dibdin; the verso of the title page contains the Dibdin quote and is blank in the small paper copy. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick (Hugo no.4335). A bibliographical guide of the rare English folio and quarto volumes preserved in the library of the book collector and member of the Roxburghe Club, Francis Wrangham. Describes 100 items with lengthy annotations. Light spotting to endpapers; a very few isolated areas of browning to text; a couple of contemporary pencil amendments and remarks in margins; last two leaves mispaginated.
Price: $ 2,950.00 other currencies Order nr. 45049

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(Esslemont, David) THE FALL OF XENOPHON.
Montgomery David Esslemont n.d. (circa 2000) large 8vo. paper-covered boards, with a paper spine label. 12, (3) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. This story was originally published in The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature, (Solomon Hodgson, Newcastle, 1799). This amusing eighteenth-century tale recounts the disasters and misfortunes that befall a modest man when he dines with his neighbor. The illustrations are adaptations and enlargements of four contemporary wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 58969

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Gardner-Medwin, David (editor) BEWICK STUDIES, ESSAYS IN CELEBRATION OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THOMAS BEWICK 1753-1828
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2003 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages.
First edition. This well-researched book was published in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Bewick, one of the foremost wood engravers in Britain. Eight revealing essays by leading Bewick scholars capture a wealth of untapped archival sources on Bewick and his world. The first three essays provide a new synopsis of his life and the growth of his reputation. Other essays shed new light on his character, library, colleagues, family and other hitherto neglected dimensions of his life. Another essay covers Bewick's relationship with the Beilbys, his American admirer Alexander Anderson, and the fate of his woodblocks. For those interested in this unique art form, this work will be most interesting. Co-published with The Bewick Society and The British Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 75718

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(Hesterberg Press) FINDING ONE'S WAY 1975 - 2001.
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 4to stiff paper wrappers, broadsides laid in, cloth-covered clamshell box unpaginated
One of ten copies. This is an important collection of early works from the Hesterberg Press. Each clamshell box contains twenty-three original works in seven folders along with a sewn booklet printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, which gives a history of the Hesterberg Press and a full descirption of each work. Eleven Thomas Bewick engravings, printed from wood, are featured in typocrafters' keepsakes, broadsides and sewn booklets. Also are several folio signatures from three of the early books.

The works are presented in secure folders in chronological order and represent the major works of the press during this period. The clamshell box is covered in cloth with a blind stamped cover and gold stamped label by the Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 114200

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(Hesterberg Press) THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 2008 large 8vo cloth (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii)
The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections.

The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press.

A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 101433

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(Leaf Book) Borden, John and Janet Krueger THOMAS BEWICK & THE FABLES OF AESOP
Biographical Sketch by John W. Borden and History of the Fables by Janet S. Krueger. San Francisco Book Club of California 1983 4to. paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket. 58 pages.
Limited to 518 copies (Leaf Book - Chalmers 179; BCC 175). Contains an original leaf from the 1818 first edition of Bewick's FABLES OF AESOP and new impressions from the original blocks of Bewick's wood engravings for THE BOYS AND THE FROGS. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 3109

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Muir, Percy VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 287 pages.
First edition. Five colored illustrations and ninety-one in black and white. Chapters on Catnachery, Bewick, Cruikshank, Dalziel, the advent of Color, America, etc. Randeria bookplate.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 2854

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Muir, Percy VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
New York Praeger Publishers (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 287 pages.
First U.S. edition. Five colored illustrations and ninety-one in black-and-white. Chapters on Catnachery, Bewick, Cruikshank, Dalziel, the advent of Color, America, etc.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 24053

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Muir, Percy VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 287 pages.
First edition. Five colored illustrations and ninety-one in black-and-white. Chapters on Catnachery, Bewick, Cruikshank, Dalziel, the advent of Color, America, etc. Presentation from Muir on half-title "For Vera Ries with the compliments + thanks of the author Percy M- 1971."
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 64532

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Muir, Percy VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
New York Praeger Publishers (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 287 pages.
First U.S. edition. Five colored illustrations and ninety-one in black-and-white. Chapters on Catnachery, Bewick, Cruikshank, Dalziel, the advent of Color, America, etc. Spine of jacket is faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 105499

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Muir, Percy VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. (1971) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 287 pages.
First edition. Five colored illustrations and ninety-one in black and white. Chapters on Catnachery, Bewick, Cruikshank, Dalziel, the advent of Color, America, etc. Jacket spine is faded.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114511

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Nyman, Thure. LUSTRESOR PA BOKFLODEN (PLEASURE TRIPS ON THE RIVER OF BOOKS)
N.P. (but Stockholm) Sällskapet Bokvännerna 1959 tall small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 110 pages.
"Limited" edition of 4,000 copies. A keepsake of the Swedish Society of Bibliophiles with seven short articles: Bewick and English engraving, "the book illustrator who wanted to be a painter" (G. Doré), and five others. All previously published elsewhere. With 27 illustrations.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 52946

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Tattersfield, Nigel JOHN BEWICK, ENGRAVER ON WOOD 1760-1795.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 192 pages
First edition. When people think of Bewick, they are generally thinking of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) and his superlative wood engravings of animals and birds. Thomas skill and reputation largely obscured the artistic recognition of his younger brother, John Bewick, as an accomplished wood engraver illustrating mostly children's books.
Yet John Bewick was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, designer-engravers in England to make his living exclusively by illustrating books. His popularity resulted in producing illustrations and engravings for 60 books - mostly children's books - during a tragically short working life.
This is the first book entirely devoted to this remarkable wood engraver. It consists of two parts. The first is a biography of the artist, drawing upon largely unpublished but highly detailed and entertaining correspondence, which has surfaced in the last few years. The second part provides a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of John Bewick's illustrations. This has been made possible by Nigel Tattersfield's discovery of John Bewick's own ledger of commissions dating back to 1791.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 63433

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