Thomas Bewick: 'The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Design...

Hammer

£270

Thomas Bewick: 'The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood', Newcastle, Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818, 1st edition, royal paper issue, leaf bearing the facsimile of Bewick's thumbprint, alongside the price, designation as a royal paper copy, and a small copper-engraved seaweed spray design printed over the wood-engraved landscape vignette, bound after title page, woodcut vignette title page, hundreds of woodcut head- and tailpieces by Bewick throughout, 8vo (225 x 143mm), contemporary decorative calf gilt, gauffered edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt