“Nothing like leather.”
A most interesting and quaint old relic is the one from which annexed impression is given, from Dyche’s Spelling Book: an exceedingly clean, choice and crisp copy of this book, in the original sheep covers,—a veritable “old shopkeeper,” which for nearly a century had escaped its intended destiny in Rusher’s varied stores, at length found a resting place in Sir Thomas Bodley’s venerable receptacle for bibliographical treasures in the Bodelian, Oxford. The present example—a portion of which was broken away many years ago,—is probably the sole surviving one of the quaint series of cuts, doubtless admired by our great-grand-parents over 100 years ago.
The following are curious examples of Fable Cuts, which were used in Dilworth, Cocker, Fisher, and others.
Early Fable Cuts, used at Banbury in Spelling Books. | |
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History of Joseph, designed by Isaac Cruikshank. | |
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Clever little vignettes, by Thomas and John Bewick and Pupils, usedfirst at Nicholson’s, Ludlow, circa 1787, and afterwards, circa1814, used in Rusher’s Banbury Books. | ||
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