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Block by Thomas Bewick.

The “Memoirs of a Peg Top,” “Perambulations of a Mouse,” 2 volumes with cuts by John Bewick, and a number of other works, some by Mrs. Trimmer, under various pseudonyms, were published in Bow Lane, also many quaint broadsheets, the cuts of which are in this volume.

Hazzard, printer of Bath, who published many works for Dr. J. Trusler, with woodcuts by John Bewick, Lee, and others, also published the cheap repository tracts.

All the following little wood blocks were used in several toy books, sometimes with Bewick’s name on the titles, and done from 1787 to 1814, in Dutch flowery and gingerbread gilt paper binding, just like Newbery series.

Early John Bewick Cuts.

Tommy Two Shoes.	Robin Hood and Little John, pub. Wilson and Spence, York.
York Story Books, by Wilson and Spence, circa 1797.

Used in the Fables.	Used in the Fables.

Cut by Lee, on the covers of Rusher’s Penny “Banbury’s.”	Two Blocks from Valentine’s Gift. 1797.
Used by Wilson and Spence, York.	Patty Primrose.

From Primrose Prettyface and her Scholars.

Two Ballad Cuts, by Green, of Knaresborough.
Mrs. Winlove’s Rise of Learning.	The Concert of Birds, from Tommy Tag.

Frontispiece to Tommy Playlove and Joseph Lovebook.

Whitfield’s Tabernacle, Moorfields, or Spa Fields Chapel. (?)

In Blade’s Life of Caxton, the reader will find interesting examples of the earliest woodcut blocks illustrating the quaint and rare tomes issued by the Almonry, Westminster, also at Oxford. The Robin Hood Garland blocks (circa 1680 or earlier), is one of the earliest provincial blocks with a distinct history. We can trace them in varied collections used by early London and Provincial printers, and in the London Bridge printed Chap Book Literature.

Sutton, printer of Nottingham, issued a curious quarto volume of old woodcuts. He was descended from the celebrated T. Sutton, who founded the Charterhouse. Some twenty-five years ago I went over the very quaint collection with the proprietor, and suggested a volume being issued, but the idea had already been matured by him.

Robert White, the poet and local historian of Newcastle upon Tyne—by whose favour I reprinted Tommy Trip in 1867—has one of the