Five (5) Thomas Bewick books, 6 vols. total. 1st item: A History of British Birds. The Figures Engraved on Wood, Vol. I - Containing the History and Description of Land Birds, by Thomas Bewick, 1797. Printed by Solomon Hodgson, for Beilby and Bewick, Newcastle. Octavo, 335 pages including advertisement, wood cut engraved illustrations, hardbound in tooled brown leather with gilt borders and gilt lettering and pictorial designs to spine with five raised hubs, green end papers. 8 3/4" H x 5 5/8" W x 1 1/8" D. 2nd item: A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood, Seventh Edition, by Thomas Bewick, 1820. Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Octavo, 528 pages including advertisement, wood cut engraved illustrations, hardbound in half brown leather with tan cloth and gilt lettering to spine with five raised hubs, pencil and ink inscriptions from previous owners, marbled end papers. 8 5/8" H x 5 1/2" W x 1 7/8" D. 3rd-4th items: A History of Birds, Vol. I-II, by Thomas Bewick, 1832. Printed for Charles Henry Cook, for R. E. Bewick. Octavos, 810 total pages including wood cut engraved illustrations, old rebinding in half green leather with green cloth and gilt lettering to spine with five raised hubs, advertisement for Bewick's works, pasted to page before title page, ink inscriptions from previous owners, earliest possibly dated [18]32, marbled end papers. 9" H x 6 1/8" W x 1 5/8" D. 5th item: A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, by Thomas Bewick, 1862. Printed by Robert Ward, Newcastle on Tyne. Octavo, 344 pages including appendix and wood cut engraved illustrations, old rebinding in half burgundy leather with marbled paper with gilt lettering to spine and five raised hubs, marbled end papers. 9 1/8" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D. 6th item: Bewick Gleanings: Being Impressions from Copper Plates and Wood Block, edited, with notes by Julia Boyd, 1886. Printed and published by Andrew Reid, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Octavo, approximately 212 page including index, wood cut engraved, and copper plate engraved frontispiece and illustrations with tissue paper guards, hardbound in one quarter tan cloth with orange cloth spine with gilt lettering to spine, yellow top edged paper. 9 7/8" H x 8" W x 2" D. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)

1st item: Covers in overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, areas of loss, largest 7/8" x 1 1/8", cracks to spine, corners bumped. Pages with foxing spots, toning, areas of dampstaining, pencil and ink inscriptions from previous owners. Front end paper and cover almost separated from binding. 2nd item: Covers in overall good condition with shelf wear, areas of loss, largest 2 3/8" x 1 5/8", cracks to spine, corners bumped. Pages with foxing spots, toning, areas of dampstaining. 3rd-4th items: Covers in overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good condition with toning, foxing spots, ink inscriptions from previous owners, earliest possibly dated [18]32. 5th item: Covers in overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good condition with toning, few foxing spots. 6th item: Covers in overall good condition with scuffs, stains, fading, corners bumped. Pages in overall good condition with toning and foxing spots.