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003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Bewick
245 1 2 $a A Memoir Of Thomas Bewick, Written By Himself. Embellished By Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed And Engraved By The Author For A Work On British Fishes, And Never Before Published.
260 # # $a Newcastle-on-Tyne: $b Printed By Robert Ward, Dean Street, For Jane Bewick, Gateshead. $a London: $b Longman, Green, Longman, And Roberts, And Sold By All Booksellers. $c 1862. [The Right of Translation is Reserved.]
300 # # $a xix, [1], 344 p., [2] pl.: $b illus.; $c 227 mm. (Quarto.)
500 # # $a Pages xix appear to include the frontispiece. The first unnumbered plate is bound in between p. 50 and p.51; the second, between p. [322] and p. 323. The illustrations on pp. 291-323 have versos blank.
505 0 # $a [Frontis. (= pp. i, ii?), t.p.] - [Quotation from 'Leslie's Hand Book for Young Painters'] - Preface (by J.B.) - [Note, by T.B.] - Contents - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon].
508 # # $a The first illustration (frontispiece) is signed, 'Drawn by John Bewick 1781'. All other prints are unsigned.

The name of the printer, Robert Ward, is repeated in the colophon.
510 0 # $a J. Uglow, Nature's engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick (2006); N. Tattersfield, Thomas Bewick (2001); T. Bewick, A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself, ed. I. Bain (rev. 1979); S. Roscoe, Thomas Bewick a bibliography (1953/R1973); A. Wheeler, 'Thomas Bewick's projected "History of British fishes" with notes on another book on fishes attributed to Bewick', in Festschrift für Claus Nissen (1973), p.651-86.

The context of Bewick's work is set out in A Garrett, A history of British wood engraving (1978); W.J. Linton, The masters of wood engraving (1889); J. Jackson and W.A. Chatto, A treatise on wood engraving (1839).
520 2 # $a The first unnumbered plate shows a notice, 'Thomas Bewick Newcastle was Bound October the first 1767'. The second shows the fish, 'The Maigre. (Sciæna Aquila. - Cuvier)'. The frontispiece shows 'Cherryburn'. The illustrations on pages 291-321 show fish. The book is further decorated with wood-engraved headpieces and tailpieces showing incidents in British country life.
563 # # $a 19th-century green cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'Memoir Of Bewick'.
600 1 4 $a Bewick
653 # # $a Engravers - Engraving - Great Britain - History - 18th century - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Wood engravings - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Bewick $e source artist
700 1 # $a Bewick $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Bewick, jane $e publisher
700 1 # $a Ward $e printer
710 2 # $a Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts $e publisher