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[BEWICK] LEGRAND D'AUSSY, PIERRE JEAN BAPTIST. Fabliaux, or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries.
London: Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Press, 1796-1800. First edition in English. Two volumes, bound in contemporary red English straight-grained morocco, outer borders gilt with a Greek-key roll, spines paneled in gilt, black labels, all edges gilt. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (23 x 16 cm); [4], Ix, 280 pp.; [4], 340 pp; includes 22 finely executed engraved head-pieces to each ballad by Thomas and John Bewick and others, and numerous tail-pieces. Light wear, an exceptionally pretty copy overall. The Wynne Rice Hugh Jeudwine copy, with his WRHJ bookplate; and the earlier bookplate of Charles Tennant (and one other).
The work contains 52 woodcuts (25 and 27 cuts respectively by volume) of which eight were produced by Thomas or John Bewick. These were begun by John Bewick while in London, and were continued during the last years of his life, at Cherryburn. After his death the work was completed by Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. This is the Jeudwine copy in contemporary red English morocco of a very high quality of finishing. Hugo 4279. Pease Collection 73. Lowndes, p. 1334.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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