Catalogue of the Bewick collection (Pease bequest)
This is a 1904 catalogue of the Bewick collection in Newcastle upon Tyne, compiled by the public libraries and bequeathed by John William Pease, listing works by the Newcastle wood engravers Thomas and John Bewick. The pictures are small wood-engraved vignettes in black line: a spreading oak beside a distant castle, a sapling by a hillside, a rocky riverbank under overhanging trees, and a group of villagers passing a thatched cottage. A designer might take from them the compact tailpiece format, with trees and landscape built from dense hatching and white-line detail on plain cream paper.
