Collection of chapbook and broadside cuts bound in an album
- 8 x 6-1/2 inches
8 x 6-1/2 inches. Contemporary half calf, hinge off. Largely disbound, some proofs apparently extracted. 8 x 6-1/2 inches. Bound with two broadsides: 1. Cards Spiritualized: Almanack, Bible & Prayer Book. Printed and Sold by T. Bloomer Edgbaston-street, Birminghamn (13-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches) 2. The Christian Alphabet or, Parents' Guide & Childrens' Instructor ; T. Bloomer's, Cheap Juvenile Book Warehouse...(13 x 8-3/4 inches) and over 100 proofs of blocks (some with many vignettes, a few by Bewick), mounted to blue paper.
With an early note laid in: "A quantity of the proofs in this Book are by Bewick amongst them may be mentioned: 3 Fable cuts, The Mermaid, Gathering Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, children cuts, Robin Hood, Cock Robin, ... Probably the proof of some printing office in the north of England sent to me by a bookseller in Yorkshire. The price is £3.10.0. The volume is unique.
With an early note laid in: "A quantity of the proofs in this Book are by Bewick amongst them may be mentioned: 3 Fable cuts, The Mermaid, Gathering Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, children cuts, Robin Hood, Cock Robin, ... Probably the proof of some printing office in the north of England sent to me by a bookseller in Yorkshire. The price is £3.10.0. The volume is unique.