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Item Number: 103805
Title: THOMAS BEWICK : The Complete Illustrative Work
Author: Tattersfield, Nigel
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781584562733
Description: London: British Library, 2010. 3 vols. 29cm., hardcover.Vol. 1: An Account of the Engraving Workshop, its Masters and Apprentices, 392pp.; Vol. 2 : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Primary & Secondary Works & the Principal Larger Prints, 948pp.; Vol. 3 : Notes, Refernces & Indexes to Volumes Two & Three, 240pp., all vols. illus. Bewick’s celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797 and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children’s story-books, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books and even a book of sermons. Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps and large single prints.
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