Thomas Bewick: The Complete Illustrative Work. Volume One: An Account of the Engraving Workshop, its masters and Apprentices; Volume Two:A Descriptive Catalogue of the Primary & Secondary Works & the Principal Larger Prints; Volume Three: Notes, References & Indexes to Volumes Two and Three.

Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically this book 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. Fine in slipcase