- A comprehensive work on the illustrations of Thomas Bewick
- Records many previously unrecorded titles illustrated by John Bewick
- Includes previously neglected illustrations from the Beilby-Bewick
series of workshop archives and archives donated to the British Museum by Isabella Bewick Bewick's celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until 1849, his workshop provided illustrations for books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children's story-books, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books and even a book of sermons.
Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically these books details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps and large single prints.
Whether appealing to the Bewick aficionado, book historian, historian of popular art in the eighteenth century, provincial printing enthusiast or admirer of engraving on wood or on copper, this will be an indispensable work.
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