A descriptive and critical catalogue of works, illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, wood engravers, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; . with a brief appendix of their miscellaneous engravings, brief sketches of their lives, and notices of the pupils of Thomas Bewick.
John Gray Bell (1823-1866)
Category
Books
Date
1851
Materials
Collection
Cherryburn, Northumberland
NT 3065117
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 78p., p.3-8, plates . ill.., (engr., ports..) . 4to. Copious MS. notes. With cutting from The Times of 1877 inserted referring to sale of Whitehead's Bewick collection. With letter from Miss Bewick laid in (name of recipient excised). With Whitehead's own MS. list of illustrations for the catalogue tipped in. With three prospectuses for the volume tipped in, two giving a price of 18s., the other 21s. With an invitation to a Bewick exhibition held by the Fine Art Society in November 1880, at which this volume was exhibited, tipped in. With advertisement for the Hugo sale of 1877 laid in. With 20th. century magazine cuttings laid in.. Provenance: MS. on title page: Thos. M. Whitehead 1854. Presented to Cherryburn in 1994 by Mrs. Gray Turner.. Binding: half calf with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt on spine.
Makers and roles
John Gray Bell (1823-1866), editor John Bewick (Northumberland 1760 - Northumberland 1795), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828), engraver (printmaker) John Gray Bell (1823-1866), publisher