Articles, Letters, Miscellany
The following items are located in Special Collections. A detailed description of these items is available on the library's online catalog Voyager.
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Large broadside of forty-eight engravings based on Holbein’s Dance of Death. The text "Printed from the original woodcuts/Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick"; "Thomas and" has been struck through.
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Letter from E. Pearson to Thomson dated June 9, 1883 regarding loan of Bewick wood block in exchange for Thomson’s subscriber list.
Apprenticeship agreement dated Sept. 25, 1871 by which John Johnson was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby and Thomas Bewick. Agreement was found placed in Hugo copy of History of British Birds, Vol. 1, 1797.
Book Plate from the library of Charles Dickens designed by Thomas Bewick.
Reprint of newspaper article from The Globe, April 15, 1811, titled "New Arrivals at the Royal Menagerie." Gives a description of exotic birds and animals arriving at the Royal Menagerie, a place thought to be where Bewick found his inspiration for A Brief Description of the Principal Foreign Animals and Birds.
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