A FRAIL MEMORIAL Being Selections from the Writings and Engravings of Thomas Bewick
by (Cherryburn Press); Selected By William Hesterberg; Thomas Bewick
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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FERNDALE, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The Cherryburn Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Brown cloth gilt, slipcase, slender 8vo., 47, (1) pages, illustrated with 16 copper engravings of tailpieces and a brown paper framed wood engraving on Troya paper from the original block by Bewick; and a mounted portrait and halftone photograph. One of 100 numbered copies printed at the Cherryburn Press of R. Hunter Middleton, who printed the original wood engraving. Bound by Kner & Anthony. Four-page tribute to Paul Bennett with an original Bewick wood engraved vignette, the four page prospectus and an unused Newberry Library postcard of the Bewick woodblock"The Fallow Deer" laid in. A fine copy in the very lightly used cloth-covered board slipcase.
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- Bookseller
- Entropy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006328
- Title
- A FRAIL MEMORIAL Being Selections from the Writings and Engravings of Thomas Bewick
- Author
- (Cherryburn Press); Selected By William Hesterberg; Thomas Bewick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Cherryburn Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- BEWICK, CHERRYBURN, R. HUNTER MIDDLETON
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- Gilt
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