Lot 1467 , Bewick, Thomas – Bewick Gleanings: Being Impressions From Copperplates and Wood Blocks… edited, with notes, by Julia Boyd, 4to, 2 parts in 1, large paper copy, being number 188 of 250 copies signed by the editor, engrave

° Bewick, Thomas – Bewick Gleanings: Being Impressions From Copperplates and Wood Blocks… edited, with notes, by Julia Boyd, 4to, 2 parts in 1, large paper copy, being number 188 of 250 copies signed by the editor, engraved plates and numerous illustrations, tissue-guards, original black morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover, t.e.g., Andrew Reid, Newcastle, 1886. Together with 4 others related to Bewick: [W. Davison’s] ‘Wood Engravings of Land and Water Birds by Thomas Bewick’, limited edition, one of sixty, [circa 1860], and James Thompson’s ‘The Seasons’, illustrated by Thomas Bewick, 1805, and ‘Select Fables; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others’, 1820, and W. Bingley’s ‘Memoirs of British Quadrupeds’, 1809 (5)
£150-200

Condition:
‘Gleanings’: Provenance: G.C. Robertson b/plate to f/free e/paper; James Robert Hall b/plate to f/pastedown; Dorothy Muir gift inscribed to in blue ink from James Robert Hall on f/pastedown, spotting to e/papers and blanks, toning, ink annotation to margin of M2, rubbing to extremities, slight fading to upper cover; [W. Davison] ‘Wood-Engravings’: light to moderate spotting to preliminaries and title, extremities rubbed o/wise good copy, firm hinges; Thompson ‘Seasons’: Provenance: Rowland Gibson Hazard b/plate to f/free e/paper; C.W. Frederickson b/plate to front pastedown, occasional browning, firm hinges, minor loss to paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed; Bewick’s ‘Select Fables’: occasional browning and offsetting, includes portrait frontispiece, slight crease to title, rebacked with later lettering piece; Bingley’s ‘Quadrupeds’: 71 uncoloured etched plates [erratically numbered], light to moderate spotting throughout, spine gilt faded, extremities rubbed.