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Bewick, Thomas and Esslemont, David.
Thomas Bewick A Commemoration. Being impressions from original wood-blocks by T. Bewick and others.
Publisher: David Esslemont, Newcastle;
Date of Publication: 1978
Stock Code: 14381
Limited edition of 40 copies only in full red morocco, of 100 copies in total. Quarto, pp., xi, [3], 23 of Bewick wood engravings printed to rectos only, [2] blank, [3] bibliographical noted paginated 24-25, [2] blank, [1] colophon, [4] blank. Titled in gilt to spine, gilt rules to boards, printed on handmade B.F.K Rives Velin Cuve paper, fore-edge untrimmed. The slightest and most minor of shelf-wear to board edges. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A near-fine copy. A fine collection of Bewick wood-engravings, printed from the original blocks by Esslemont on a Columbian Press, as Bewick’s contemporaries would have printed them. £450.00