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The Cresset Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Thus. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

UK: Oxford University Press, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Name written on flyleaf; interior pages unmarked. Dust jacket glossy. Binding firm..

Oxford University Press, 1979. Oxford University Press, 1979, 8vo, 276 pages, illustrations. Softcover edition, signed by editor Iand Bain on 1st title page. Book in very good+ condition.. Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cresset Press, 1961. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). Bewick, Thomas.. Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley. 17 black & white wood engravings. 203pp. Short 8vo, blue boards, sunned d.w. London: Cresset Press, 1961. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Thoemmes Press and Kinokuniya. Used - Very Good. 1998. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: The Cresset Press, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Ex library copy with stamps, label and usual handling wear. Plastic cover of the jacket stuck down with Sellotape causing brown vertical mark down the last couple of pages.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. 304pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in a price-clipped, wrapper, very good in a very good wrapper . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.

Ornithology Monographs . Pub. The Cresset Press. 1961. pp.xxxiv, 203 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Tho. vg. hardback in vg. dw., chipped and rubbed on extremities. This memoir of Bewick�s life has been through many editions since its first appearance in 1862 - 34 years after Bewick�s death. The text established by Bewick�s daughter Jane with the unwelcome help of her printer, Robert Ward was a smoothed out, repunctuated and abridged version of the original manuscript.

London: The Cresset Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Thomas Bewick Woodcuts. Introduction by Montague Weekley. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

London: The Cresset Press, 1961 Portrait frontispiece by Joan Hassall (Chambers 77); 17 illustrations by Bewick; Edited, with a 19 page introduction, by Montague Weekley; First edition thus: a volume in 'The Cresset Library' edited by John Hayward; Hardback: light blue cloth decorated in dark blue; Tiny bruise to head of spine, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, else a fine tight copy in a near fine dustwrapper.

Paperback / softback. New.

London England: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardback. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), whose achievement as an artist-engraver is unrivalled to this day, worked virtually all his life in Newcastle, principally as a metal engraver and copper-plate printer.Bewick's delightful Memoir, written at the end of his life provides a remarkable picture of a north-country childhood in Georgian England. As a record of the life of an eighteenth-century artist-crafstman it is unique. Long regarded as a minor classic, the book has been through many editions since its first appearance in 1862 - 34 years after Bewick's death. Iaian Bain's introduction, which makes use of hitherto unpublished letters, is accompanied by a helpful exposition of Bewick's methods of engraving and of the printing techniques of the time. Moreover, the volume is illustrated with fifty of the figures and tail-pieces from… Read More

London, etc. : Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy only in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Spine bands are worn. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; xlv, 258 p. : plates, ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Subject; Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828.

London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/VG-. Thomas Bewick. Brown cloth binding. xliv+258, 15 plate ills on 5 leaves ex-pagination, numerous un-numbered text ills throughout, mostly head and tail-pieces of Bewick's engravings.No obvious faults bar faint race of dustiness to top edge. Unclipped jacket clean but rubbing to joints and fore-edges and slight fading to spine region and top back edge. First edition was 1862, over 3 decades after Bewick's death,16 cm x 24 cm

London: Oxford University Press, 1975 65 illustrations by Bewick; 26 other illustrations; Edited with introductions and notes by Iain Bain; First Edition thus; A volume in the series "Oxford English Memoirs and Travels" edited by James Kinsley; Hardback: brown cloth, green lettering-piece decorated in gilt, light brown end-papers; Slight signs of use, near fine in used dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1979., 1979. Mass Market Paperback. SIGNED and DATED softcover, pp. xxviii, [2], 276. Bewick's woodcuts and other illustrations throughout, with 4 double-sided monochrome photographic plates. Publisher's cream card wraps with swan woodcut image. Spine sunned. Some modest underlining in pen to pp. 143-145. Otherwise a neat copy; Very Good condition. This copy of Thomas Bewick's memoirs is signed and dated, at Cherryburn, Bewick's birthplace, by editor and renowned Bewick scholar Iain Bain. This edition also features an introduction by Iain Bain.

Oxford Univ Press, 1975T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Price clipped. Some chips to the jacket.

London: The Cresset Press, 1961. First Edition First Impression . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thomas Bewick. 1961 First Edition First Impression. Size octavo, 204 pages. Pale aqua hard cover with blue titles in frame to the front cover and blue titles with vignette to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition near fine, spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine, contents very clean. Dust jacket condition very good plus, corners slightly rubbed, 1cm tear at front fold at head of spine, spine ends slightly creased, spine slightly sunned, folds a little rubbed, not price clipped. Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley. Illustrated with reproductions of Bewick's own woodcuts.

Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0192554131 . xliv + 258pp, illustrations, brown cloth with dustwrapper; Oxford English Memoirs & Travels; Large octavo .

Oxford University Press, London., 1975. First edition thus: unabridged and with unpublished letters. Octavo. pp xlvi, 258. Illustrated with fifty of Bewick's woodcuts and with plates. Near fine in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine.