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lovely block — when well printed — showing a man returning from market with 

 his unladen donkey. " Tarn o' Shanter chased by the Witches " is fair, and 

 the Cows on p. 30, the Fox Hunt at p. 85, and the Dog and Cat, p. 140, 

 in the second volume, are excellent examples of Bewick's best style at this 

 period. At least three editions of these Poems, in two volumes, were 

 published. The one described was issued by Catnach and Davison, Alnwick, 

 and dated 1808, the first volume having pp. i — vii, 17 — 276, and the second 

 pp. i — viii, 9 — 266. A similar edition with the same date, but with William 

 Davison's name only on the title, has in the first volume pp. 1 — 6, vii — xlii, 

 43 — 266, and in the second pp. i — viii, 9 — 270. Another edition was 

 published later by W. Davison, probably in 181 2, copies with the original 

 boards bearing that date on the cover, the pages numbering in the first 

 volume i — vii, i — xlii, 43 — 297, and in the second i — xii, 13 — 320, 1 — 26. 



The partnership between Catnach and Davison lasted only from the end 

 of 1807 until towards the close of 1808. There were a number of editions 

 of Burns published from Alnwick between 1808 and 1840, some being issued 

 in parts and sold at one shilling each. In all the pagination is very defec- 

 tive, and in the 1812 (?) edition there are a number of engravings additional 

 to those in the 1808 volumes. Another and quite different edition appeared 

 in 1828 in one volume, published by Davison, with twenty engravings, 

 several being from the earlier editions.* 



" The Repository of Select Literature," 1808, contains few prints which 

 had not previously appeared in other Alnwick publications. It is ludicrous 

 to find, among several others, the cut which appears in Burns as the " Poet 

 and Coila" doing duty as an illustration to the "Vision of Azidah " in the 

 Repository, and the Burns block of "The Lammas Night" illustrating 

 the meeting of Edwin and Ethelinde. Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress," 

 printed in Taunton by J. Poole, 1806, has six designs drawn by Thurston 



* Davison in 1811 made a proposal to print a three-volume foolscap octavo edition of Bums's Poems, with 

 three copper-plates and eighteen woodcuts by Bewick, at the price of eighteen shillings, but the project was abandoned. 



