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Bewick, John, and Esslemont, David.
John Bewick A Selection of Wood Engravings being impressions from original wood-blocks.
Publisher: David Esslemont, Newcastle;
Date of Publication: 1980
Stock Code: 14382
One of twenty-five copies only bound in full morocco, of a limitation of 140 copies. Quarto, pp., frontispiece, xiv, [2], 22 of wood-engravings printed to rectos only, [1] blank, 23-24 bibliographical note, [1] blank, [1] colophon, [2] blank. Ornamented gilt to boards, title in gilt to spine, fore-edge and lower edge uncut. Felt-lined crimson slip case. Printed on handmade B. F. K. Rives Cuve Velin paper. Spine lightly sunned, very light minor foxing to edge of end-papers. A very good 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