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Bewick, Thomas (faked).
Wood Engravings of Land and Water Birds. Never before published.

. Wood Engravings of Land and Water Birds. Never before published.

Suite of 114 wood-engraved bird depictions on 57 plates. 58 unnumbered leaves incl. title. 4to. Modern half cloth. – Newcastle-upon-Tyne, J. J. Lynch, August 1860.

According the copac entry, this is one of only sixty copies published. “These cuts are those formerly possessed by Davison, and used in his “‘British Land and Water Birds’” (Hugo). Fake authorship. The woodcuts are from William Davidson’s printing shop in Alnwick, but not from Bewick. – Hugo 526. – End-papers foxed, the plates mostly clean. – Best.-Nr. 16214

CHF 260.—
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BEWICK. – Le Grand (d’Aussy, Pierre Jean-Baptiste).
Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, Selected and Translated into English Verse by G. L. Way. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix by the late G. Ellis. A new edition corrected. 3 vols.

. Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, Selected and Translated into English Verse by G. L. Way. With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix by the late G. Ellis. A new edition corrected. 3 vols.

With 52 woodcut vignettes in the text by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. XLI, (3), 223 pp.; 272 pp.; 304 pp. 8vo. 19th-century green morocco over 5 raised bands. Spine gilt with cerf vignette. Boards with outer and inner gilt fillets. Top edge gilt. Partly unopened. – London, J. Rodwell, 1815.

First illustrated and annotated edition of this collection of French fabliaux, translated and versificated ty G. L. Way. Way’s version has first been published between 1796 and 1800 in 2 vols. without notes and preface, while the French original version was first published in 1779. The fine woodcuts accompanying the tales are of the best done by the famous Bewick brothers. Nice copy in an English master binding from the library of Robert Thompson with his armorial ex-libris on the paste-downs of all 3 vols. – Brunet III, 947. – Occasional minor foxing, otherwise a fine copy in an superb binding. – Best.-Nr. 6942

CHF 500.—
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