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NORTHCOTE, JAMES, One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected. ...
London: Geo: Lawford, Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson, 1828. First edition. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. iii, [i], 248 pp. Three quarteers green sheep by Hering, gilt spine, with marbled paper boards. Joints starting but sound, l.ight rubbing at spine tips, endpapers slightly stained or spotted; text quite clean and fresh. Ray 55. ¶ Harvey was "the longest lived and most important of Bewick's pupils" (Muir); he adapted Northcote's designs of the headpieces for engraving, but the tailpieces and initial letters were his own work, and the whole earned Bewick's generous praise
Offered for US$ 300.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 252445