Dealing in Deceit: Edwin Pearson of the "Bewick Repository" Bookshop 1838-1901
Tattersfield, Nigel
Publication Date |
2020 |
Publisher |
The Bewick Society, |
Binding |
Hardback |
Condition |
Near fine, bright copy in like dust jacket |
SKU |
24308 |
Notes |
Very clean, bright and neat. |
Description
Hardback. 92pp. The story of bookseller Edwin Pearson and his unscrupulous selling of doctored illustrations to the enthusiastic collectors of Thomas Bewick woodcuts in the nineteenth century. Selection of black and white plates and further Bewick illustrations as vignettes to the heads and tails of chapters. Smartly bound in olive green cloth with illustrated dust jacket.
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