Bewick (Thomas).- Sportsman's Progress (The):... Lot 41

Bewick (Thomas).- Sportsman's Progress (The): a Poem, descriptive of the Pleasures derived from Field Sports, 24pp., first separate edition, half-title, wood-engraved title-vignette and 12 other vignettes by ?Thomas Bewick, lightly browned, the Schwerdt copy with his circular engraved bookplate, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spine worn, [Hugo 3612; Schwerdt II p.223; Not in Tattersfield], 8vo, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820. ⁂ Rare; first published in the second edition of Scott's British Field Sports and probably one of only a few copies issued separately. Library Hub lists only 2 printed copies (BL and University of Liverpool Library), WorldCat adds a further 5 copies of which 2 are in the UK (University of Suffolk, Ipswich and University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham).