1770-1800
A New Invented Hornbook (1770)
[This is his earliest illustrated work for children and was published whilst he was still
an apprentice with Beilby in Newcastle]
The New Lottery Book of Birds and Beasts (1771)
The Pretty Book of Pictures for Little Masters and Misses, or Little Tommy Trip's
History of Beasts and Birds (1779 T Saint, Newcastle)
Selected Fables (1784)
Emblems of Mortality, Representing in upwards of 50 Cuts, Death Seizing all
Ranks & Degrees of People (1789 for T Hodgson, London)
Offered in 1991 for £225
A General History of the Quadrupeds (1790 Newcastle
(1791 S Hodgson, Newcastle. 2nd Ed 1791)
(1792 Hodgson, Newcastle. 3rd Ed)
(1800. 4th Ed)
(1807 Edward Walker, Newcastle. 5th Ed)
(1811 6th Ed)
(1820 Newcastle. 7th Ed)
(other editions to 1828)
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Robin Hood : Ritson Collection of Ballads (1795)
- 2 vols
Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell (1795)
History and Description of Land Birds (1797)
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A History of British Birds (1797-1804 Hodgson, Newcastle)
- 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £350
(1809 Edward Walker, Newcastle. 3rd Ed)
- 2 vols in 1
Figures of British Land Birds (1800)
1801-1820
History and Description of Water Birds (1804)
The Fables of Mr John Gay (1810 T Wilson & R Spence, York)
The Adventures of Captain Gulliver, in a Voyage to Lilliput
(1815 J Lumsden, Glasgow)
- Chapbook
Offered in 1995 for £290
A Natural History of British Birds (c1815 W Davison, Alnwick)
- 34 engravings
Fabliaux or Tales Abridged (1815 Rodwell, London)
A Natural History of Foreign Quadrupeds (c1815 W Davison, Alnwick)
Bewick's British Birds (1817)
The Fables of Aesop, and Others (1818 E Walker for T Bewick)
(1823, 2nd Ed)
Select Fables : with a Memoir (1820 Printed by S Hodgson, Newcastle)
History and Description of Water Birds (later editions up to 1828)
Quadrupeds : The Figures Engraved on Wood (1818)
History and Description of Land Birds (editions up to 1828)
1821-1830
A Supplement to the History of British Birds (1821 Newcastle)
- 2 vols
The Works (1822 for Emerson Charnley, Newcastle)
- 5 vols
A General History of Birds & Quadrupeds (1824 Robert Desilver, Phila)
- 2 vols
Vignettes (1827 Edward Walker, Newcastle)
1831-1900
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by Himself
(1862 Newcastle & London)
(1924 John Lane, Bodley Head)
(1961 Cresset Press)
Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop & Others (from the 1784 edition)
(1871 Bickers, London)
Memorial edition of Thomas Bewick's Works (1885-7 Bernard Quaritch, London)
- 5 vols.
Ltd Ed 750 signed by the publishers
Bewick Gleanings : being Impressions from Copper-plates and Wood Blocks engraved
in the Bewick Workshop (1886 Newcastle)
- Large paper
20thC
The Water Colour Drawings .. By David Croal Thomson (1930 Brabizon House, London)
- 525
21 Engravings (1951 PP, St Charles, IL)
- 500. 2 vols
Letters of Thomas Bewick to John Dovaston 1823-8 (1968 Bodley Head)
- 300 copies
Select Fables (1975 Frank Graham, Newcastle)
Vignettes (1978 Scolar Press)
My Life (1981
Folio Society)
Birds, being Impressions from Original Wood-Blocks (1984 David Esslemont, Newcastle)
- 250
READING
19thC
Thomas Hugo : The Bewick Collector : Descriptive Catalogue of the Works
of Thomas & John Bewick (1866-8 Lovell Reeve, London)
- 2 vols
(Ed)
Thomas Landseer : Life & Letters of William Bewick (1871 Hurst & Blackett)
- 2 vols
F G Stevens : Notes - A Collection of Drawings & Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick,
exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms 1880 & a Catalogue of the Published Work
of Thomas & John Bewick from 1770 to 1880 (1881 London)
D C Thomson : The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick (1882 Art Journal Office, London)
- 250 initialled
Henry Austin Dobson : Thomas Bewick and His Pupils (1884 Chatto & Windus)
(1884 Osgood, Boston - 200)
Robert Robinson : Thomas Bewick - His Life & Times (1887 R Robinson, Newcastle)
20thC
Selwyn Image : Thomas Bewick (1932 Print Collector's Club, London)
- 500
H V Wiles (Compiler)
: Thomas Bewick 1753-1828 (1945 PP)
- 350
S Roscoe : Thomas Bewick - A Bibliography Raisonne of Editions of the General History
of Quadrupeds, the History of British Birds, and the Fables of Aesop (1953)
(1973 Dawsons)
Sir Henry E Roscoe : Thomas Bewick - A Bibliography Raisonne (1953 OUP)
Montague Weekley : Thomas Bewick (1953 OUP)
Reynolds Stone : The Wood Engravings of Thomas Bewick (1953 London)
- 1000 signed
Thomas Hugo : The Bewick Collector : Descriptive Catalogue of the Works
of Thomas & John Bewick (1970 Burt Franklin NY)
- 2 vols
M Ellison : Thomas Bewick - Marginal Drawings and Notes
(1978 Dodman Press, Hitchin)
- with M Gill
Graham Reynolds : Thomas Bewick (Art & Technics)