The Fables of Aesop, and Others.

Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick, Newcastle., 1818. First edition, with the inserted "receipt" bearing the facsimile thumbprint of Thomas Bewick and the signatures of him and his son, which has been bound before title-page; this copy is without the wood engraving of "Auld Clouty" which Bewick later suppressed and replaced with "The Philosopher". pp xxiv, 376. Frontispiece engraving of Thomas Bewick; 188 wood engraved illustrations and 136 tailpieces by him. Period binding of full leather, raised gilt decorated bands. Mounted onto the front free endpaper and at the bottom on the last page of contents are 19th century newspaper clippings on Anglo-Saxon themes which might or might not be illustrated by Bewick - if so, they are not in his usual style, but then this raises the question as to why they are present; also, for reasons unclear, there is a newspaper cutting of Hartley Coleridge's poem "The Solace of Song" on the verso of the title-page. There is some abrasion to the covers particularly at the tail of spine. Occasional spotting. Good, the many wood engravings within in excellent state.