Being an Elegant Assemblage of Curious, Scarce, Entertaining and Instructive Pieces in Prose and Verse. Adorned with beautiful Engravings by Bewick, &c. Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison. Sold by the Booksellers in England and Scotland. 1808.
This work is a fine specimen of provincial book-printing; its pages are adorned with some of Bewick’s excellent cuts. There is one that we would particularly refer to, and that is “Shepherd Lubin.” In size it is very small, but, like most of Bewick’s pieces, sufficiently large to show the inimitable skill of the artist. The picture tells its own tale:—
“Young Lubin was a shepherd’s boy,
Who watched a rigid master’s sheep,
And many a night was heard to sigh,
And may a day was seen to weep.”
And for whole days would wander in those places she had been used to walk with Henry.
“The History of Crazy Jane, by Sarah Wilkinson, with a frontispiece by Bewick: Alnwick. Printed by W. Davison; and Sold by all the Principal Booksellers in England and Scotland. 1813.”
“Willie Brew’d a Peck o’Maut.”