A General History of Quadrupeds

Thomas Bewick

Edité par Printed by Edward Walker, for T Bewick and Son; Longman and Co.; and Wilson and Sons, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1824

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A very good copy of the 8th edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts by Thomas Bewick in contemporary full leather binding. The spine has highly decorative gilt compartments, gilt titles and date and small gilt-lined raised bands. The boards are russia leather with gilt ruled lines around the edges. The binding is very clean with rubbing around the spine ends, edges and corners and down the spine joints. There is the beginning of a split in the front spine joint at the top. Internally there is the armorial bookplate of Charles John Whittingham - with the motto 'Hope Well and Have Well' on the front pastedown endpaper. Whittingham is likely to be Charles Whittingham the Younger (1795-1876), who was a printer with connection to the Chiswick Press. Contents: 2 initial blanks; title, advert and index xpp; text 526 pp; final blank. The contents are very clean. There is light spotting to the foredge which is occasionally visible internally at the page edges. There is an old paper repair at the top of the title page. 8vo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A General History of Quadrupeds
• Éditeur: Printed by Edward Walker, for T Bewick and Son; Longman and Co.; and Wilson and Sons, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Date de parution: 1824
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Full-Leather
• Illustrateur: Thomas Bewick
• Édition: 8th Edtion
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • NATURAL HISTORY