The Chase. A Poem. Illustrated with B&W Engravings by BEWICK.

SOMERVILE, WILLIAM: BEWICK:

Verlag: London, W. Bulmer & Co. Shakspeare Printing Office, 1796 1st

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Tall Hardback, 8vo. 11.5 x 9 inches. Halfbound dark maroon morocco leather with decorative gilt edging, marbled paper boards, gilt banding and lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and blue speckled page edges. In very good condition. Leather rubbed on spine and corners, boards darkened and bumped and chipped along papered edges. Bookplate to front inscribed ?Francis Dorothy Williamson,? and later ?Denis Atkinson.? Some light foxing to inside pages, some occasional pages with some darker spots. Binding all tight and sound. Else a very good clean and tight first edition example. 126pp. "To The Patrons of Fine Printing" (1pp.), "William Somervile" (10pp.), Preface by the Author (7pp.). Illustrated with a decorative title page vignette, and 8 B&W wood-engraved head & tailpiece vignettes, and 4 chapter vignettes on full-pages, by BEWICK. Mr.Bewick, the younger, prepared, and indeed finished on wood, the whole of the designs, except one, before his death in Dec.1795. In executing the engravings "his Brother, Mr.Thomas Bewick, has bestowed every possible care". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 90011

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Titel: The Chase. A Poem. Illustrated with B&W ...

Verlag: London, W. Bulmer & Co. Shakspeare Printing Office, 1796 1st