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Description: | This celebrated bookplate by Thomas Bewick is supposed to have been engraved for the Hon. Horace Walpole's library at Strawberry Hill. It was in fact intended as a simple decoration for a catalogue of an antiquarian book sale for Emerson Charnley of Newcastle. This catalogue contained books from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press amongst the items for sale. The bookplate was also used on the title page of the 'Howdy and the Upgetting, Two Northumbrian Tales, Two tales as related by the late Thomas Bewick of Newcastle in the Tyne Seyde Dialect', published 1850. A howdy was the nineteenth century name for a midwife. Bewick pictures a howdy in 'Land Birds' (1797) on page 157. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: unknown | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Thomas Bewick | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discoveringb... | Go to resource |
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