THE CHECKLIST
PART 1
BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF THOMAS BEWICK (EXCLUDING BEWICK'S QUADRUPEDS AND BRITISH BIRDS, UNLESS LISTED IN ROBERT BEWICK'S SCHEDULES C-E, AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS NOT IDENTIFIED AS THOMAS'S PROPERTY)
CLASS II: Voyages & Travels, Descriptions of Foreign Countries, Geography, County History, British Topography &c
29. (*)An
Account of the Great Flood in the River Tyne, on Saturday Morning, Dec. 30,
1815. To which is added, A Narrative of the Great Flood in the Rivers Tyne,
Tease [sic], and Wear, &c. on the 16th and 17th Nov. 1771 With an account
of the Eruption of Solway Moss, Newcastle: John Bell, 1816. (M164)
“An
Account of the Great Floods, 1771-1815, printed for John Bell, on the Quay,
Newcastle, 1816” (M164).
Hugo
(1866, No 345) states that four engravings are by Thomas Bewick.
(Inscribed
'To Mr. Thomas Bewick, from his friend John Bell'. Bought in a lot together
with Bell's Figures in Rhyme, A Right Merry Garland, and A
Garland of Bells, for 12/- by R. Donkin, in 1884.)
29a. A
map of England and Wales, topographically illustrative of national & civil
history. A folding map, forming the frontispiece to (Anon.) An
accompaniment to the topographical map of England and Wales, interspersed with
poetical quotations. Newcastle: E. Charnley; Baldwin, Craddock and Joy,
London; and other booksellers, 1823. (Y)
See
also 294, possibly the same.
(Inscribed
on the title page “The Gift of Thomas Bewick. Engraver. Newcastle to his Daugter
[sic] Isabella Bewick, 17 March 1824”. It looks as if “Thomas Bewick. Engraver.
Newcastle” may have formed his own ownership inscription before the other words
were added. In publisher’s boards with later paper spine. Map lacks its lowest
one third. No “Bewick Library number”.)
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30. American
Geography,
1792. (D2,E)
“American
Geography 1792” (D)
Probably:
Moise, Jedidiah, The American geography; or, a view of the present
situation of the United States of America: ... Second edit. London: John
Stockdale, 1792.
31. [Baillie] An impartial history of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and its
vicinity, Newcastle: Vint & Anderson, 1801. (D2,E,W)
“Vint's
History of Newcastle 1 Vol. 8vo” (D).
“Vint
& Anderson's History of Newcastle” (E).
(Bewick
appears twice in the alphabetical subscriber’s list, as “– Bewick, engraver,
Newcastle” and as “Thomas Bewick, Newcastle”. The identity of Baillie’s history
and Vint’s is supported by the date and publisher, the absence of Baillie’s
name from the title page (or elsewhere in the book), failure to identify any
such book with Vint or Anderson as authors, and the fact that a definite
excerpt from Baillie’s history is in The Reports, Papers, Catalogues &c
of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, collected by
Anthony Hedley (Newcastle: printed by T. & J. Hodgson, 1801) where it
is given the contemporary handwritten title ‘An account of the Literary and
Philosophical Society and Thomlinson’s Library from Vint and Anderson’s History
of Newcastle’.)
32. Cole,
B[?]‡. History of Ecton in
Co of Northampton, 1825. (E)
No
doubt: Cole, John. The History and Antiquities of Ecton: in the
County of Northampton, Scarborough: John Cole; London, Longman [and
others], 1825; (ill. three leaves of plates).
(John
Cole, bookseller and antiquary, came from Northamptonshire but later opened a
bookshop in Scarborough (Oxford DNB). His diaries, in York Minster
Archive, refer to a visit by Bewick to Scarborough, as follows: 'In July
of this year (1827) that celebrated Engraver Mr Thomas Bewick paid Scarborough
a visit, when I had the pleasure to enjoy much of his company &
conversation. He was accompanied by two of his daughters. ... Mr Bewick
remembered Oliver Goldsmith well… One morning during this visit he presented me
with a proof ... of the blue throated Robin ... .' Bewick accompanied Cole to
the opening of the Cliff Bridge, Scarborough on 19 July 1827. Cole may well
have presented the Ecton book to Bewick on this occasion (information kindly
supplied by Mr Rodney Ingram). Cole and Bewick may have been acquainted before
1827, however, since two of Cole’s books were said to be illustrated by Bewick,
according to F.G. Stephens's A collection of drawings and woodcuts of Thomas
Bewick exhibited at the Fine Arts Society's rooms in 1880 ... also a complete
list [of TB's works], London: Fine Arts Society, 1881. The two are: A
bibliographic and descriptive tour from Scarborough to the library of a
bibliophilist in its neighbourhood by J. Cole. 8vo. Scarborough, 1824, with
a woodcut on the title page, and "Cole's Catalogue [ie A Descriptive
Catalogue of a Select Portion of the Stock of John Cole, Bookseller,
Scarborough'] Scarborough, 1825, with one cut".
‡The initial is badly
written, though not like a J.
33. *Consett,
Matthew. A Tour through Sweden, Swedish-Lapland, Finland and Denmark,
4to, London: J. Johnson, W. Goldsmith, T. Lewis and R. Christopher, 1789. (?F,M174,O910,R23,Z)
(Seven
copperplates, lacks frontispiece; inscribed “A Gift from T Bewick to his
daughter Jane 1823” in Bewick's hand; inscriptions on several of the plates by
Jane Bewick. She states that Thomas Bewick engraved all the plates present, and
also drew the plate of the reindeer, in 1786. A partly effaced pencil
inscription records that the antlers of the reindeer [drawn during life at
Ravensworth] afterwards ornamented [Bewick's house on the Forth] in 1805. In
ink the statement was updated in ink, when the antlers ornamented the Bewicks'
kitchen in Gateshead.
M174
notes the missing frontispiece, and that an extra proof impression of the
“Kader” and a drawing of the Lapland women in Indian ink were inserted. These
points are not mentioned in the Pease cataologue. The proof of the Kader
(Capercaillie) is now missing; the drawing of the women is present (entitled
“SIGRE and ANAAEI [sic] two Lapland Girls”) and may be the work of Consett; it
shows the same costumes as Bewick illustrated in his copper-plate but the
postures of the women and the background are different. The existence of such a
drawing is mentioned in the text at page 149. The Bewick Memento (n.d.,
c 1884) records the sale of this copy to W.T. Johnson at the Bewick Sale in
1884, for £1-12-6. Miss Boyd loaned the book to the Bewick Exhibition (1886 –
item 102) (Z). The catalogue (Pease 208) of the sale of the Julia Boyd
Collection (1892) - Lot 910 - notes the inserted drawing, and confirms
“Purchased at the Bewick sale in 1884”. The sequence of owners is thus
established - Thomas, Jane, and Isabella Bewick, Johnson, Boyd, Pease, City
Library.)
34. Cook's
Last Voyage,
4 vols., 8vo. (C√,D2,E)
(“Cooks
last Voyage 4 Vols. 8/vo” (C)
“Cooke's last Voyage 4
Vols. 8vo” (D)
“Cookes
last Voyage 2 Vols: 8/vo” (E)
Possibly: An abridgement of Captain Cook's last voyage: performed in the years
1776,1777,1778, 1779 and 1780 ... London: G. Kearsley, 1787 (5th edition,
or another); or
Compendious
history of Captain Cook’s last voyage ..., (edition London: J. Fielding & J.
Stockdale, ?1785). But these were not issued in four volumes.
35. [Cook Voyages,
plates, 4 vols. bound in two, 8vo, 1784. (M26)
Possibly: A compendious history of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages ... 2
vols. London: G. Kearsley, 1784.
(Beilby
and Bewick engraved copperplates for a later edition of Cook's Voyages, printed
by M. Brown of Newcastle in 1790 (see Pease 54). The 1784 edition may have been
obtained by Bewick during the preparation of these plates. Bought for 6/6 by R
Robinson, in 1884.)]
36. Feldborg,
A. Denmark Delineated 3 vols. 8vo. 1821-1824 (C=,D2,E,M73)
“=Denmark
Delineated Part 1. 8/vo 1821” (C)
“Denmark
delineated [blank] Vols 8vo 1821” listed twice (D).
“Denmark
delineated 3 Vols” (E)
“Feldborg
(A.) Denmark Delineated, royal 8vo, plates, half-calf, 1824” (M73)
Probably:
AA Feldborg. Denmark delineated: or sketches of the present state of that
country ... illustrated with engravings from the designs of eminent
Dutch artists, 8vo, Edinburgh, [1821-]1824.
(Bought
by Mrs Jobling for 5/-, in 1884.)
37. Howlett Select Views in the County of Lincoln (D2,E)
“Howletts
Select Views in County of Lincoln” (D).
“Select Views County of
Lincoln” (E).
Probably: Howlett,
Bartholomew. A selection of views in the County of Lincoln: ... with
plates, London: W. Miller, 1805 or 1813.
38. [Hutton,
William. History of the Roman Wall, plates, 8vo, 1802. (M154)
Probably:
William Hutton The history of the Roman wall: which crosses the island of
Britain ... London: J. Nichols and Son, 1802.
(Bought
by the Rev JF Bigge for 9/6, in 1884.)]
39. *[Lingard,
Rev. John. The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Second Edition,
8vo, Newcastle: Edw. Walker, 1810. (M152)
With
two wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.
(Bound
in half-morocco, bought by WJ Haggerston for 10/6, in 1884.)]
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40. Mackenzie,
E. An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of
Northumberland ..., 2 vols, 8vo, Newcastle: Mackenzie and Dent, 1811. (D2,M80,U,W)
(Hugo (1866, 464) claims
the woodcuts in the second (1825) edition for Thomas Bewick; the name of Thomas
Dick appears as engraver on most of the copperplates. In the first (1811)
edition the plates are mostly attributed to R. Scott and may all be his work.)
“Mackenzie
& Dent for Histy Northd £1.8.0” paid 9.4.1813
(T&WA 1269/6) (U).
“Mackenzies
History of Northumberland 4 [sic] Vols 8vo” (D)
“Mackenzie,
E. History of Northumberland, 2 vols, 8vo, cloth, 1811.” (M80)
(The
list of subscribers includes ‘Thos. Bewick, Engraver, Newcastle’ and ‘R.
Beilby, Spital Place’. Bought by a Mr Lamb for £1 in 1884.)
41. Martin Geography,
2 vols. 4to. (D2)
“Martin's
Geography 2 Vols 4to” (D).
Possibly:
Martin, Benjamin. Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system
of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography ... 3 vols. London: M.
Cooper, 1759 (or other edition).
42. Morrison Views and Description of [?Seats near] Edinburgh, (D2)
“Morrison's
Views & Descripn of S??ts ??t?ar Edinburgh” (D).
(The
two almost illegible words in the title look like “Siuts” and (probably) “near”
written over “at”. Could Morrison have been the publishers “Morrisons,
booksellers of Perth” who commissioned Robert Johnson to engrave copies of
portraits “in the collection of the Earl of Breadalbane at Taymouth” in 1796
(Angus 1993 p.3)? Possibly the book is the same as an untitled portfolio of
views of Midlothian engraved by Robert Scott and published by Morison of Perth
in 1795 (copy in Nat. Lib. Scotland).
43. [Paterson,
W. Travels, lacking title page and some other prelims. (L)
No
doubt an edition of: Paterson, Lieutenant William. A narrative of four
journeys into the country of the Hottentots and Caffraria: in the years one
thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight and nine. London: J.
Johnson, 1789 [1st edition], or 1790 [2nd edition].
(Inscribed
on one of two blanks inserted between pp. vi and ix, “R.E. Bewicks Book Forth
Newcastle”. Listed in the 1916 catalogue as in Isabella Bewick's donation to
the Nat Hist Soc of August 1881. Later rebound using the old boards. The
address “Forth” (occupied by the Bewicks 1781-1812) indicates that R.E.Bewick
owned it in his father's lifetime. Hancock Museum accession number
NEWHM.2002.H1055.)]
44. Pennant,
Thomas. Some Account of London, 3rd edition, 4to, London:
Robert Faulder, 1793. (M69,R)
“Pennant,
Thomas. Account of London, 4to, plates, morocco, 1793. Inscribed ‘The
gift of Isabella Bewick to her daughter Elizabeth’.” (M69).
(Found
in the reference section of Newcastle City Library and transferred to the
Bewick Collection, July 2004. Bound in late 19th century blind
stamped dark red morocco, all edges gilt. Inscribed on a flyleaf “To the
ingenious Mr Bewick with the author’s compliments. June 14th 1798”
in Pennant’s hand, and on the title page “The bequest of Isabella Bewick to her
Daughter Elizabeth” in Thomas Bewick’s. Referred to in a letter from Pennant to
Bewick dated June 28 1798 “I sent last week a copy of my History of London,
the best edition, to Mr. White, bookseller, Fleet Street, to be delivered to
your order. May it prove some amusement to you” (Fox, 1827, p.25). Bought by R
Robinson for 18/-, in 1884 (M69). Inscribed on verso of t.p. “Mawson Swan
1/10/4 S/O/l” (presumably sold by this Newcastle firm in October 1904) and with
the bookplate of the City Library of about that date. The ownership between
1884 and 1904 is the only period unaccounted for. Probably rebound by Robinson.
No Bewick library number.)
45. Salisbury
Guide, (A,D2,E)
(Identified
by Tattersfield (2001) as by James Easton, with editions 1769 - 1800).
46. Sibbald,
Sir Robert, M.D. The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife
and Kinross ... with an account of the natural products of the land and waters,
A new edition, 8vo, Cupar - Fife: R. Tullis, 1803. (C=,D2,L)
“Sibbalds
History of Fife, 1 vol. 8vo. 1803” in C and D (double entry in D).
(Inscribed
“Ja. Wemys” in an unknown hand, and “to Thomas Bewick” in his; “Bewick Library
number” “No 33” on flyleaf. Donated to Nat Hist Soc by Miss Isabella
Bewick, August 1881. On 22.5.1804, not long after its publication, Bewick
received from “Lt Col Wemyss 7s.6d.” (T&WA 1269/5) and five weeks later he
“Paid Jopling for cutting Col. Wemyss, landscape stone 3s.” (ibid). At
about this time also Bewick may have undertaken an engraving of the arms of the
ancient Earls of Fife (Rush, 1987); but this was not published in the book. In
the Memoir (page 181) Bewick describes “my gallant friend Coll.Wemys,
of Wemys hall in Fife Shire formerly of the 11th Regt of
foot & afterwards Coll. of the Fife Shire Militia” who spent
some time in Newcastle “ardent in his pusuit after mechanical knowledge”. See
also item 301.)
47. *Trusler,
Dr. The Habitable World Described, 12 vols. 8vo, plates, some designed
by John Bewick, 1787, half-calf. (A,C√,D2,M85)
(Tattersfield,
2001, JB24, records that John Bewick contributed illustrations to six of the
first ten volumes of what became a twenty volume series. He quoted a letter of
JB to TB saying that he stopped subscribing by 1795 - presumably after 63 parts
had been issued, comprising 12 volumes. Only M gives the date as 1787.
Tattersfield gives 1788-91 for J Bewick's contributions, in volumes II, IV, V,
VIII-X.)
“Trusler's Habitable World
Described 63 Numbers Compleat” (JB24) (A)
“Trusler's
Habitable World 12 vols: 8/vo” (C)
“Trustler's
Habitable World Described 12 Vols 8vo” (D).
(Bought
by R Robinson for 8/6, in 1884.)
48. Vint Geography,
2 Vols. 8vo. (C√,D2,E)
“Vint's Geography 2 Vols.
8/vo .geo:” (C)
“Vint's
Geography 2 Vols. 8vo-” (D).
(“.geo:”
after 8vo in C, may indicate shelving under “Geography”; it appears to have
been written in a different hand.)
No
doubt: Vint, John. A concise system of modern geography, or, a description
of the terraqueous globe, exhibiting a distinct view of all nations; in which is given an historic account of their origin, their relative
situations, their political constitutions, their laws, their religions, their
natural productions, their arts, [etc] to which is prefixed a large
introduction [in Volume 1] ... Enriched with every natural occurrence
in Cook’s Voyages Round the World ... and subjoined, a Complete History
of the French Revolution, including all the events of the present war [in
volume 2], 2 vols Newcastle: Vint and Anderson, 1800, 1801.
(“Vint's
History of Newcastle 1 Vol. 8vo” (D).
“Vint
& Anderson's History of Newcastle” (E).
See
Baillie’s Impartial History ... (31), above.)
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