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| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Bewick |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | $a A Memoir Of Thomas Bewick, Written By Himself. Embellished By Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed And Engraved By The Author For A Work On British Fishes, And Never Before Published. |
| 260 | # | # | $a Newcastle-on-Tyne: $b Printed By Robert Ward, Dean Street, For Jane Bewick, Gateshead. $a London: $b Longman, Green, Longman, And Roberts, And Sold By All Booksellers. $c 1862. [The Right of Translation is Reserved.] |
| 300 | # | # | $a xix, [1], 344 p., [2] pl.: $b illus.; $c 227 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a Pages xix appear to include the frontispiece. The first unnumbered plate is bound in between p. 50 and p.51; the second, between p. [322] and p. 323. The illustrations on pp. 291-323 have versos blank. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Frontis. (= pp. i, ii?), t.p.] - [Quotation from 'Leslie's Hand Book for Young Painters'] - Preface (by J.B.) - [Note, by T.B.] - Contents - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a The first illustration (frontispiece) is signed, 'Drawn by John Bewick 1781'. All other prints are unsigned. The name of the printer, Robert Ward, is repeated in the colophon. |
| 510 | 0 | # |
$a J. Uglow, Nature's engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick (2006); N. Tattersfield, Thomas Bewick (2001); T. Bewick, A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself, ed. I. Bain (rev. 1979); S. Roscoe, Thomas Bewick a bibliography (1953/R1973); A. Wheeler, 'Thomas Bewick's projected "History of British fishes" with notes on another book on fishes attributed to Bewick', in Festschrift für Claus Nissen (1973), p.651-86. The context of Bewick's work is set out in A Garrett, A history of British wood engraving (1978); W.J. Linton, The masters of wood engraving (1889); J. Jackson and W.A. Chatto, A treatise on wood engraving (1839). |
| 520 | 2 | # | $a The first unnumbered plate shows a notice, 'Thomas Bewick Newcastle was Bound October the first 1767'. The second shows the fish, 'The Maigre. (Sciæna Aquila. - Cuvier)'. The frontispiece shows 'Cherryburn'. The illustrations on pages 291-321 show fish. The book is further decorated with wood-engraved headpieces and tailpieces showing incidents in British country life. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 19th-century green cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'Memoir Of Bewick'. |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Bewick |
| 653 | # | # | $a Engravers - Engraving - Great Britain - History - 18th century - 19th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - Wood engravings - Great Britain - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bewick $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bewick $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bewick, jane $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Ward $e printer |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts $e publisher |