Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds. 2nd. Ed. Printed for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. Bewick. 1791
pp.x, 483, title-page with wood-engraved vignette and wood-engraved illus. throughout text. Hardback. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Very minor spotting and a few minor marks internally o/w. contents fine. Full, straight-grained, 19th Century leather binding with gilt decoration in nr. fine condition. Comes with two loosely inserted articles from The Sunday Times, both dated 1928. The first features a letter to the Editor, from Wyatt Wingrave M.D., in which Wingrave explains that he possesses many original Bewick wood blocks, that Bewick’s ‘genuine wood engraving has ceased entirely’ and that Mid-Victorians were merely wood scratchers. The second article is a, not unwarranted, disapproving, response letter from esteemed wood engraver Gilbert Dalziel (1853 - 1930) in which he asks if the doctor is aware of the engravings in eight works (all listed) and are they too the work of Mid-Victorian wood scratching? A very pleasing copy.
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