9th Nov, 2021 10:00

Fine Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 622
 

Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds,....

Bewick (Thomas, ill.)

History of British Birds, 2 vols., free endpaper and all pages before preface detached, numerous vignettes, [Roscoe 14c, variant A; 17c, variant B], Sol. Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick, 1797 - 1804; The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with an unrecorded variant title page, tape to gutter, lacking facsimile signature frontispiece, [Roscoe 45c, variant A], Newcastle, 1818; Select Fables, lacking frontispiece, bookplate to second free endpaper, Emerson Charnley et al., 1820; [Wynne (John Huddlestone)] Tales for Youth, in Thirty Poems..., lacking frontispiece, 30 wood-engraved illustrations by Bewick, modern binding, 12mo, E.Newbery, 1794; with a copy of the Quadrupeds lacking a title, lower board detached; various calf or morocco bindings, worn, v.s. (6)

Provenance: Property from the Estate of Pamela Myers

Estimated at £600 - £800

 

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