Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 900
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BEWICK, THOMAS; illustrator.) Pretty Book of Pictures . . . or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds. Woodcut illustrations throughout by Bewick. [viii], 124 pages. 12mo, original or contemporary blue boards, backstrip lacking, spine resewn at an early date; leaf F5 misbound, chip to A4, slightly affecting text of page viii. London: Printed for S. Carnan, 1787
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Fourteenth Edition of a scarce early Bewick work. First published in 1779 by Thomas Saint of Newcastle, it was an important work for Bewick, who perfected these images and used them for his famous History of Quadrupeds.