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Title(s):

The fables of Aesop, and others / with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick.

Additional Title(s):

Aesop's fables. English.

Edition:
The second edition.
Published/Created:
Newcastle : Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and son : Sold by them, Longman and Co. London, and all booksellers, 1823.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 376 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA3855 E5 B38 1823 Copy 1
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Edited and illustrated by Thomas Bewick.
Printed by Edward Walker, Newcastle.
British Art Center has 3 copies. Copy 1 has the autograph of John Sylvester; copy 2 has the autograph of A.W. Gabuteau-Herrick; copy 3 has the autograph of John Dovaston, and has a proof impression of a Bewick wood engraving bound in.
All copies have the "thumb mark" receipt (1 leaf) printed from wood blocks and a copper-plate.
Title vignette.
Roscoe, S. Bewick, c46b
Hugo, T. Bewick collector (suppl.), 4331
Subject Terms:
Bewick (T.) and Son -- Publisher.
Dovaston, John Freeman Milward, 1782-1854 -- Provenance.
Fables.
Gabuteau-Herrick, A. W. -- Autograph, 1942.
Jones, T., Mrs. -- Provenance.
Ruddock, E. -- Pres. insc. to her son Joshua Festin Ruddock.
Ruddock, Joshua Festin -- Pres. insc. from his mother E. Ruddock, 1825.
Sylvester, John -- Autograph.
Walker, Edward -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1823.
Contributors:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828, engraver.
Aesop.
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