Bewick, Thomas.

The Fables of Aesop, and others, with designs on wood... Newcastle: E. Walker, for T. Bewick and son, 1818, 8vo, first edition, Imperial 8vo, facsimile thumbmark receipt bound in at the beginning signed by Bewick (with impression in red of a spray of seaweed, taken from a copper-plate), Gwen Raverat's copy, 188 head-pieces and 136 other vignette illustrations, nineteenth-century half calf, marbled endpapers, boards and edges, some spotting, rebacked, binding very worn and rubbed; A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on Wood... Newcastle: E. Walker for (London:) T. Bewick, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and (York:) Wilson and sons, 1820, seventh edition, 8vo, Gwen Raverat's copy, 226 figures, 111 vignettes etc, nineteeth century calf gilt, marbled edges, upper cover detached, lower cover nearly detached, foxed, rest of binding very worn (2)

The Fables of Aesop: Robert Charnley, original purchaser, filled in by hand on thumbmark receipt; presented to a relation, the Rev. Thomas Paley of Stamford; his daughter Mary P. Marshall, inscription on front endpaper; presented by her or close relative to the artist Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), inscription in the recipient's hand on front endpaper ("Gwendolen Raverat | June 1911 | from Mrs Alfred Marshall")
The General History of Quadrupeds: T. Hepworth Hall, bookplate; Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), ownership signature ("G Raverat") on front endpaper

Roscoe 45a; 7

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A celebrated modern wood-engraver's copies of two key works by one of her nineteenth-century artistic forbears. The highest quality of Bewick's work is often considered to be represented in A General History of Quadrupeds.