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specimens of Bewick's engraving on copper. The "Sportsman's Friend" 

 (page 171), the "Hive of Modern Literature," and the 1806 Bible 

 (page 217) include many fine examples of Bewick's work on wood and on 

 copper, and are all worthy of honoured places in a collection. Hewlett's 

 " Spelling Book" (page 170), and many of the York publications by Wilson 

 and Spence, contain prints from Bewick blocks, a large number used 

 again and again in different works. Burns' s Poems, Ferguson's Poems, and 

 the "Pilgrim's Progress," described at pages 217, 226, and 219, are 

 examples of the later period of Bewick's art. 



Of John Bewick's works the volumes most worth possessing are, besides the 

 Goldsmith and Parnell and the "Chase," the "Emblems of Mortality" (p. 145), 

 "Proverbs Exemplified," and "Proverbs in Verse" (p. 147), the "Progress 

 of Man and Society," and the "Looking Glass for the Mind" (p. 148), and 

 the " Blossoms of Morality" (p. 158). 



The prints by Bewick published separately are more difficult to secure. 

 The Chillingham Bull (see pp. 97-109), the Kyloe Ox (p. 90), and the Whitley 

 Large Ox (p. 90), the large wood engravings of the Lion, the Elephant, the 

 Tiger, and the Zebra (p. 174); the " Waiting for Death " (p. 243), and the 

 "Cadger's Trot" (p. 235) have all their proper place in a collection. The book- 

 plates for private gentlemen, and cuts for advertisements, shops, societies, 

 race programmes, and kindred purposes, are almost all now difficult to find, 

 as they have become much scattered; the principal have been mentioned, 

 and their design, when important, described under the date when sent out 

 from Bewick's workshop. The bank notes referred to at p. 173 have an interest 

 attached to them beyond their beauty, or because of their being Bewick's work. 



It is scarcely profitable to advise the collector to acquire original 

 drawings, as there are none to be purchased except at rare intervals, when 

 they obtain high prices. It is almost equally useless to try to give the 

 monetary value of any of these works, as so much depends on the condition 

 of the individual copy. Collectors, however, should remember that all fine 



