The History of the Catnach Press at Berwick upon Tweed, Alnwick, Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland and Seven Dials, London..

by Charles Hindley

$275 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

London: Charles Hindley, 1886. 4to, xlii, 308 pp. With some 230 woodcuts including 42 by Bewick, some on colored backgrounds. Original quarter white paper and boards, a bit worn but sound, lower hinge cracked but sounds, binder’s ticket present. § Limited to 250 copies of the large paper edition. “One class of literature which Jemmy Catnach made almost his own, was children's farthing and halfpenny books. Among these are :-The Tragical

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