Antique Book-MOCK-UP-WOODENGRAVING-BEWICK WORKSHOP-Bewick-ca. 1847-1880

Price: € 484,50

Subject: According to a stamp printed and published in Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, ca. 1847-1880. 4to: 100 pp. Half brown/black leather over grey-green cloth boards. Gilt ruling to front and rear boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Undescribed.

Condition: Very good, given age. Some foxing.

Medium: 57 wood engraved plates. Thomas Bewick and others.

Size (in cm): 4to: 17 x 22.5 cm.

Size (in inch): 4to: 6.7 x 8.9 inch.

Part Number: 55366

Location: ZL3a

Antique Book, titled: 'Bewick.', by: Thomas Bewick. A mock-up or dummy binding with one printed vignette and four (identical) pages from "Quadrupeds" and 57 loosely inserted woodengravings (including some duplicates) from the workshop of Bewick. The other pages blank.

Artists and Engravers: Author(s): Thomas Bewick. Illustrated by: Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was born in Prudhoe, near Newcastle upon Tyne. He would remain in this region for the rest of his live. Bewick worked as a woodengraver. His many very finely executed designs and bookillustrations are highly appreciated. Bewick is seen as the man who started the great production of woodengraving in the 19th. century.