Block by Thomas Bewick.
The “Memoirs of a Peg Top,” “Perambulations of a Mouse,” 2 volumes with cuts by John Bewick, and a number of other works, some by Mrs. Trimmer, under various pseudonyms, were published in Bow Lane, also many quaint broadsheets, the cuts of which are in this volume.
Hazzard, printer of Bath, who published many works for Dr. J. Trusler, with woodcuts by John Bewick, Lee, and others, also published the cheap repository tracts.
All the following little wood blocks were used in several toy books, sometimes with Bewick’s name on the titles, and done from 1787 to 1814, in Dutch flowery and gingerbread gilt paper binding, just like Newbery series.
Early John Bewick Cuts.
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Tommy Two Shoes. | Robin Hood and Little John, pub. Wilson and Spence, York. |
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York Story Books, by Wilson and Spence, circa 1797. | |
| Used in the Fables. | Used in the Fables. |
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Cut by Lee, on the covers of Rusher’s Penny“Banbury’s.” | Two Blocks from Valentine’s Gift. 1797. |
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Used by Wilson and Spence, York. | Patty Primrose. |
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From Primrose Prettyface and her Scholars. | |
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Two Ballad Cuts, by Green, of Knaresborough. | |
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Mrs. Winlove’s Rise of Learning. | The Concert of Birds, from Tommy Tag. |
