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Thomas Bewick

Male : Wood Engraver with his brother John. Apprenticed to the Newacstle engraver Ralph Beilby. Called the restorer of wood engraving. Worked in black and white. His pupils included John Bewick, Robert Johnson, Charlton Nesbit, Luke Clennel & William Harvey
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ovingham, Northumberland

Date of Birth : 1753 Date of Death : 1828 Age : 75
1770-1800
A New Invented Hornbook
(1770)
[This is his earliest illustrated work for children and was published whilst he was still
an apprentice with Beilby in Newcastle]

The New Lottery Book of Birds and Beasts
(1771)
The Pretty Book of Pictures for Little Masters and Misses, or Little Tommy Trip's
History of Beasts and Birds
(1779 T Saint, Newcastle)
Selected Fables
(1784)
Emblems of Mortality, Representing in upwards of 50 Cuts, Death Seizing all
Ranks & Degrees of People
(1789 for T Hodgson, London)
Offered in 1991 for £225
A General History of the Quadrupeds
(1790 Newcastle
(1791 S Hodgson, Newcastle. 2nd Ed 1791)
(1792 Hodgson, Newcastle. 3rd Ed)
(1800. 4th Ed)
(1807 Edward Walker, Newcastle. 5th Ed)
(1811 6th Ed)
(1820 Newcastle. 7th Ed)
(other editions to 1828)
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Robin Hood : Ritson Collection of Ballads
(1795) - 2 vols
Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell
(1795)
History and Description of Land Birds
(1797)
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A History of British Birds
(1797-1804 Hodgson, Newcastle) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £350
(1809 Edward Walker, Newcastle. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols in 1
Figures of British Land Birds
(1800)

1801-1820
History and Description of Water Birds
(1804)
The Fables of Mr John Gay
(1810 T Wilson & R Spence, York)
The Adventures of Captain Gulliver, in a Voyage to Lilliput
(1815 J Lumsden, Glasgow) - Chapbook
Offered in 1995 for £290
A Natural History of British Birds
(c1815 W Davison, Alnwick) - 34 engravings
Fabliaux or Tales Abridged
(1815 Rodwell, London)
A Natural History of Foreign Quadrupeds
(c1815 W Davison, Alnwick)
Bewick's British Birds
(1817)
The Fables of Aesop, and Others
(1818 E Walker for T Bewick) (1823, 2nd Ed)
Select Fables : with a Memoir
(1820 Printed by S Hodgson, Newcastle)
History and Description of Water Birds
(later editions up to 1828)
Quadrupeds : The Figures Engraved on Wood
(1818)
History and Description of Land Birds
(editions up to 1828)

1821-1830
A Supplement to the History of British Birds
(1821 Newcastle) - 2 vols
The Works
(1822 for Emerson Charnley, Newcastle) - 5 vols
A General History of Birds & Quadrupeds
(1824 Robert Desilver, Phila) - 2 vols
Vignettes
(1827 Edward Walker, Newcastle)

1831-1900
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by Himself
(1862 Newcastle & London)
(1924 John Lane, Bodley Head)
(1961 Cresset Press)
Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop & Others
(from the 1784 edition) (1871 Bickers, London)
Memorial edition of Thomas Bewick's Works
(1885-7 Bernard Quaritch, London) - 5 vols.
Ltd Ed 750 signed by the publishers
Bewick Gleanings : being Impressions from Copper-plates and Wood Blocks engraved
in the Bewick Workshop
(1886 Newcastle) - Large paper

20thC
The Water Colour Drawings .. By David Croal Thomson
(1930 Brabizon House, London) - 525
21 Engravings
(1951 PP, St Charles, IL) - 500. 2 vols
Letters of Thomas Bewick to John Dovaston 1823-8
(1968 Bodley Head) - 300 copies
Select Fables
(1975 Frank Graham, Newcastle)
Vignettes
(1978 Scolar Press)
My Life
(1981 Folio Society)
Birds, being Impressions from Original Wood-Blocks
(1984 David Esslemont, Newcastle) - 250

READING
19thC
Thomas Hugo : The Bewick Collector : Descriptive Catalogue of the Works
of Thomas & John Bewick
(1866-8 Lovell Reeve, London) - 2 vols
(Ed) Thomas Landseer : Life & Letters of William Bewick (1871 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
F G Stevens : Notes - A Collection of Drawings & Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick,
exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms 1880 & a Catalogue of the Published Work
of Thomas & John Bewick from 1770 to 1880
(1881 London)
D C Thomson : The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick
(1882 Art Journal Office, London)
- 250 initialled
Henry Austin Dobson : Thomas Bewick and His Pupils
(1884 Chatto & Windus)
(1884 Osgood, Boston - 200)

Robert Robinson : Thomas Bewick - His Life & Times
(1887 R Robinson, Newcastle)

20thC
Selwyn Image : Thomas Bewick
(1932 Print Collector's Club, London) - 500
H V Wiles
(Compiler) : Thomas Bewick 1753-1828 (1945 PP) - 350
S Roscoe : Thomas Bewick - A Bibliography Raisonne of Editions of the General History
of Quadrupeds, the History of British Birds, and the Fables of Aesop
(1953)
(1973 Dawsons)
Sir Henry E Roscoe : Thomas Bewick - A Bibliography Raisonne
(1953 OUP)
Montague Weekley : Thomas Bewick
(1953 OUP)
Reynolds Stone : The Wood Engravings of Thomas Bewick
(1953 London) - 1000 signed
Thomas Hugo : The Bewick Collector : Descriptive Catalogue of the Works
of Thomas & John Bewick
(1970 Burt Franklin NY) - 2 vols
M Ellison : Thomas Bewick - Marginal Drawings and Notes
(1978 Dodman Press, Hitchin) - with M Gill
Graham Reynolds : Thomas Bewick
(Art & Technics)

Related Writers

Aesop
Folio Society
John Gay
Robin Hood


See also

Chapbooks
Compleat Imbiber Series
Eighteenth Century Books
Oliver Goldsmith
King Penguins