A general history of quadrupeds. The figures engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.
Ralph Beilby (1743-1817)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
Newcastle-upon Tyne
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3133705
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 528p. : ill. ; 8vo. Bookseller's pencil manuscript note, with price £90.00. Provenance: not indigenous. 'Inscribed in ink 'Beverly A. Battersby 1993'. From Battersby Bequest 2008. [Blackheath, London, bequeathed in 2007]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf; with marbled paper on boards; five false bands; blind tooled spine; green spin label: Bewick's History of Quadrupeds.
Makers and roles
Ralph Beilby (1743-1817), author Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828), illustrator