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SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF THE LARGE-FORMAT ISSUE BEWICK, THOMAS. The Works. 5 volumes. Imperial 8vo, 254x163 mm, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco gilt, spines and joints rubbed; minor foxing at beginning and end of each volume, heavy foxing on first portrait in Volume 1, minor foxing on Volume 4 preliminaries, contents otherwise clean and bright, with strong impressions of the woodcuts. Bookplates of B. B. Colvin and Howard Wallingford. Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, 1822
first collected edition, imperial octavo issue. one of 500 sets comprising the works listed below, complete with additional general title in each volume and extra frontispiece in all but the first, as called for. Roscoe, pages 177-79 (noting that the only complete set he could find was the demy 8vo issue in the J. W. Pease collection). Select Fables. 5 portraits of Bewick; 341 woodcuts. 1820 A General History of Quadrupeds. 337 woodcuts. 1820. Seventh Edition. Roscoe 7a, variant A A History of British Birds . . . Land [Water] Birds. 546 woodcuts. 2 volumes. 1826. Eighth and sixth editions. Roscoe 31a, 32a The Fables of Aesop. 324 woodcuts. 1818. First edition; with state of Bewick's "thumb-mark" receipt dated 1818. Roscoe 45a, variant B.
