BEWICK, Thomas.

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Memoir. First edition, in a handsome contemporary binding, of the autobiography of Bewick, the finest wood engraver of his age. Written from 1822 to 1828 and here edited and posthumously published by his daughter, the Memoir remains the chief source for information of his life, and an important account of late 18th- and early 19th-century life."His Memoir, published a generation after his death, brought about a new interest and a widening respect which has continued to grow ever since. The attraction to his contemporaries of Bewick's observations lay in their accuracy and amusement. Two centuries later these qualities are still recognized; but so, too, is the wealth and rarity of the historical information they have to offer" (Dixon, p. 278).

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