The Fables Of Æsop, And Others, With Designs On Wood, By Thomas Bewick.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/1310
Imprint
Newcastle:: Printed By E. Walker, For T. Bewick And Son. Sold By Them, Longman And Co., London, And All Booksellers., 1818.
Physical Description
xxiv, 376 p.: illus.; 205 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[T.p.] - The Preface Dedicatory - The Introduction -The Table Of Contents - [Text with illus.]; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The illustrations are unsigned. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Thomas Bewick's son, Robert Elliot Bewick, contributed to his father's The Fables Of Aesop.
The printer's name is expanded in the colophon: 'Newcastle: Printed By Edward Walker.'
The work is dedicated by Thomas Bewick 'To the Youth of the British Isles'.
References
J. Uglow, Nature's engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick (2006); A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself, ed. I. Bain (rev. 1979); S. Roscoe, Thomas Bewick: a bibliography raisonnée (1953/R1973).
Summary Note
As well as Bewick's illustrations of the fables the book contains many decorative tail-pieces by him.
Binding Note
19th-century half green morocco, green cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-labels lettered 'Bewick 4' and 'Æsop's Fables', spines lettered 'R.A.' and '1818'.
Subject
Animals - Animals in art
Fables - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Wood engravings - Great Britain - 19th century
Contributors
Thomas Bewick, source artist, draughtsman, wood-engraver, publisher, bookseller Edward Walker, printer, bookseller Robert Elliot Bewick, wood-engraver, publisher, bookseller
Longman and Company (London), bookseller T. Bewick and Son, engraver, publisher