A natural history of water birds.. Thirty-four engravings on wood.
Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Measurements
144 x 98 x 25 mm
Place of origin
Alnwick
Collection
Cherryburn, Northumberland
NT 3043008.2
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade wove paperInk/Pigment: black printing ink with pencil inscriptions on the front flyleavesType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: 20.2 (1938) Binder's Name: British (Zaehnsdorf) End Leaves: tipped single fold of gilt paper, the inner leaf made to a leaf of white wove paper, followed by a second white wove leaf and tipped to a third. Outer leaf of gilt paper pasted to the board and trimmed out. Structure: BritishEdges: plain and gilt on top edge only, other edges plain cut individually item by item Spine Lining: moderate round, square joints, artificial hollow backEnd Bands: worked in varying bands of purple, yellow and green silk over flat parchment cores with a wound bead core.Bookmark: NoneBoards: 2mm paper boards (probably rope fibre), no back cornering, lacing not visible. Covering: full, red, tanned, crushed, levant, goatTooling Spine: gold-tooled dotted fillet at head and tail of each panel with gold-tooled 1-fillet frame, direct gold titling in panels 2 a& 3, and 2-fillet frame with mitred corners and corner and centre tools in 1, 4, 5 and 6.Tooling Sides: gold-tooled overall design, gold-tooled roll on edges and turn-ins Furniture: NoneEnclosure: BookshoeBinding Notes: 2 notes loosely inserted inside front board - possibly contributing to detached board. One note records an inscription under the bookplate of Oliver Howard of its presentation to him in 1938 by Bernard Quaritch, who presumably commissioned the binding
Bibliographic description
36p.:. ill.. (woodcuts) ;. 12mo. Bookseller's codes and bibliographical notes on flyleaves, and two bibliographical notes on slips of paper, one (or both) by J.G. Schiller.. Provenance: twentieth-century bookplate 'Ex libris Oliver Howard' [i.e.John Oliver Tunley Howard (1905-1961)], pasted over manuscript inscription by C.N. Quaritch, Christmas 1938, presenting the volume, from the collection of Bernard Quaritch, to Howard to commemorate his 11 years with the firm.. Binding: Retains publisher's paper wrapper inside gold tooled red morocco binding, signed by Zaehnsdorf.
Makers and roles
Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828)