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Lot 108

Sale 6004 - Books and Manuscripts
May 20, 2021 8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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[Printing] [Bewick, Thomas] Two Original Woodblocks

Circa late eighteenth to early nineteenth-century. Two original wood engraving blocks. Includes woodblocks of: "The Proud Fox and the Ox" used on p. 17 of the Fables of Aesop, and "Hungry Ewe and Lamb" the tailpiece for "Shetland Sheep" from the 1791 edition of the General History of Quadrupeds. Each measuring approximately 2 x 3 x 1 in. (51 x 76 x 25 mm); in brown cloth fall-down-back box.

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