Fables
by Thomas Bewick / Walter Brown
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
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About This Item
Brown, Walter illustrated by Thomas Bewick
FablesPublished by S. Grosvenor, London, 1884. , title page, ii, ii, 68 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece and woodcuts throughout by Thomas Bewick First Edition
Containing 41 lovely fables, still worthwhile reading,
Hardcover half green buckram over marbled boards, spine with original title/author label.First additional blank front paper with embossed round emblem "W.H. Smith & Son Library 186 Strand", otherwise not a single mark or note.
Printed letterpress to decal edged wire laid paper, uncut, decorated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick together with illustrative drop capitals from various sources.
Beautiful copy, very nice, internal very clean and neath, outer boards edges rubbed, lower corners bumped. See pictures for overall condition.
A must-have for the Thomas Bewick collector. For other works of Bewick please see my other adds of get in contact.
FablesPublished by S. Grosvenor, London, 1884. , title page, ii, ii, 68 pages, with tissue guarded frontispiece and woodcuts throughout by Thomas Bewick First Edition
Containing 41 lovely fables, still worthwhile reading,
Hardcover half green buckram over marbled boards, spine with original title/author label.First additional blank front paper with embossed round emblem "W.H. Smith & Son Library 186 Strand", otherwise not a single mark or note.
Printed letterpress to decal edged wire laid paper, uncut, decorated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick together with illustrative drop capitals from various sources.
Beautiful copy, very nice, internal very clean and neath, outer boards edges rubbed, lower corners bumped. See pictures for overall condition.
A must-have for the Thomas Bewick collector. For other works of Bewick please see my other adds of get in contact.
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- Bookseller
- PSM Wiki Shop (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- b268
- Title
- Fables
- Author
- Thomas Bewick / Walter Brown
- Illustrator
- Thomas Bewick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover half green buckram over marbled boards, spine with original title/author label.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1th
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- S. Grosvenor
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1884
- Pages
- 68
- Size
- 26 x 21 x 1 cm
- Weight
- 0.85 lbs
- Keywords
- Thomas Bewick
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bewick;
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