Bewick and Poetry

The king, the pirate and the maid. A dithyramb in doggerel for old and young alike ... Especially composed to accompany divers ancient wood engravings by the master, Thomas Bewick. Foster Macy Johnson, Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press, 1964.

Aesopic: Twenty Four Couplets by Anthony Hecht to Accompany the Thomas Bewick Wood Engravings for Select Fables, Thomas Bewick, Philip Hofer, Northampton, Mass., Gehenna Press, 1967.

A Bewick bestiary. [Illustrations by Thomas Bewick].James Falconer Kirkup. (North now. no. 4.): Ashington: Mid Northumberland Arts Group, 1971. Re-printed 2010.

Iba de gaunz oaman Kinda. [Gedichte. Geschmückt Haimo Lauth mit Holzstichen aus d. Schule v. Thomas Bewick] Author: Nöstlinger. Christine. 1936- Poetry in German, Wien. Jugend & Volk. 1988.

[Note: the title is in Viennese dialect German; this is a book of poems illustrated by 'woodcuts from the School of Thomas Bewick,' which may well mean that they have simply been taken from Cirker's 1800 Woodcuts.]

Return to Cherryburn. the life and work of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). with new poems by the Tyneside Poets. and photographs by Alan C. Brown and Tony Whittle. supplemented by original material. edited by Keith Armstrong. design by Peter Dixon. Tyneside Poets, Brown. Alan C., Whittle. Tony, . Keith Armstrong, 189 Stamfordham Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne 5. The Poets. 1978[Note: Includes selections from Bewick's own writings and engravings.]

Bewick Walks To Scotland, Poetry by Sally Evans (2004) Arrowhead Press, Darlington.

Angels Playing Football, Newcastle Poems by Keith Armstrong, (2006) Northern Voices, Whitley Bay.

Small Press

Fantasy in a wood-block, or, what occurred when John James Audubon, the naturalist, visited with Thomas Bewick, the wood-engraver, in the year 1827. being a narrative by Gordon R. Williams together with a print taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving at the time. Gordon R Williams, Caxton Club of Chicago. 1972 [Note: Limited edition of 500 copies].

Hesterberg, William. (editor) A Frail Memorial. Being selections from the writings and engravings of Thomas Bewick. Chicago Cherryburn Press (1975). Contains writings from Bewick's Memoir, two letters, and notations that he and his daughter made in two 1821 volumes of British Birds.

Bewick, T., 1980. Thomas Bewick's Fables of Aesop and Others: Nineteen Headpieces, Staplehurst (Great Pagehurst Farm, Staplehurst, Kent): Florin Press.

Thomas Bewick's Fables of Aesop and Others, by Iain Bain and Graham Williams. 1980. Proofs printed by R. Hunter Middleton, book printed by Graham Williams. Edition of 80 boxed sets containing 19 proofs and the book, and 50 copies of the book alone.

Bewick and Printers. 1983. Wood engravings by Thomas Bewick hand printed from the original blocks in the collection of Iain Bain and Graham Williams. A miniature book. Edition of 16.

Bewick, T. & Bewick, T., 1976. Tigers & Wild Cats, London (19 Groveway SW9 [0AR]): Merrion Press.

Bewick, T., 1982. Waiting for Death: An Unfinished Wood Engraving, Greenock ([36 Margaret St, Greenock, PA16 8EA]): Black Pennell.

Bewick, T., A Portfolio of Thomas Bewick Wood Engravings. One Hundred Prints Made from the Original Blocks Engraved by Thomas Bewick, with an Introduction by James M. Wells, Chicago: published by the Newberry Library for the Cherryburn Press, 1970.

Bewick in illustration

Bewick's works are often used in new contexts to illustrate texts on the countryside, folklore or natural history. Here is a small selection.

A Brighter-Side Anthology. The Third Pocket Trivet. With 15 Illustrations After Thomas Bewick. [A Collection of Aphorisms Reprinted from "The Morning Post," Edited by Peter Piper.] Peter PIPER, Morning Post: [London,] 1934

A Country Calendar: A Diary for Every Year, John Clare London Scolar Press 1979

A Kennel of Dogs Clifford L. B Hubbard London Elek 1977

Acorns on the Path. An Anthology ... Decorated with Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick Roy Gaveston KNIGHT Kenilworth Publishing Company: Kenilworth, 1960

Beasts of the North Country. From Whales to Shrews ... With Six Pages of Plates, Twenty-Six Drawings by D. Watkins-Pitchford and One Engraving by Bewick Henry Stuart TEGNER D. J Watkins-Pitchford Galley Press: London, 1961

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, George Ewart Evans, London Faber & Faber, 1977

Town & Country Fare & Fable Mary Ann Pike Newton Abbot David and Charles 1978

Weather Forecasting: The Country Way Robin Page Harmondsworth Penguin 1981