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001 $ 06/1310
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20211112160610.7
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 0 4 $a The Fables Of Æsop, And Others, With Designs On Wood, By Thomas Bewick.
260 # # $a Newcastle: $b Printed By E. Walker, For T. Bewick And Son. Sold By Them, Longman And Co., London, And All Booksellers. $c 1818.
300 # # $a xxiv, 376 p.: $b illus.; $c 205 mm. (Quarto.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - The Preface Dedicatory - The Introduction -The Table Of Contents - [Text with illus.]; [colophon].
508 # # $a The illustrations are unsigned. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Thomas Bewick's son, Robert Elliot Bewick, contributed to his father's The Fables Of Aesop.

The printer's name is expanded in the colophon: 'Newcastle: Printed By Edward Walker.'

The work is dedicated by Thomas Bewick 'To the Youth of the British Isles'.
510 0 # $a J. Uglow, Nature's engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick (2006); A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself, ed. I. Bain (rev. 1979); S. Roscoe, Thomas Bewick: a bibliography raisonnée (1953/R1973).
520 2 # $a As well as Bewick's illustrations of the fables the book contains many decorative tail-pieces by him.
563 # # $a 19th-century half green morocco, green cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-labels lettered 'Bewick 4' and 'Æsop's Fables', spines lettered 'R.A.' and '1818'.
653 # # $a Animals - Animals in art
655 # 0 $a Fables - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Wood engravings - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Bewick $e source artist $e draughtsman $e wood-engraver $e publisher $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Walker $e printer $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Bewick $e wood-engraver $e publisher $e bookseller
710 2 # $a Longman and Company (London) $e bookseller
710 2 # $a T. Bewick and Son $e engraver $e publisher