My life /
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London :
Folio Society,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- Parentage ; Birth ; Schooling ; Early talent as a draughtsman ; Countryside in winter ; Border songs
- Childhood pranks ; Country sports ; Local superstitions
- Cherryburn ; Fellside neighbours ; Old soldiers, farmers and gentry
- Departure for Newcastle, 1767 ; Apprenticeship to Ralph Beilby ; Early training ; First wood engraving
- Influence of remarkable characters ; Fellow lodgers ; Improving literature
- End of apprenticeship, 1774 ; Pedestrian tours in Cumberland and Scotland ; Character of the Highlanders
- Visit to London, 1776 ; Work for the publishers ; Dislike of city life ; Return to Newcastle
- Partnership with Beilby, 1777 ; Brother Jack Bewick ; Troublesome apprentices
- Death of parents and sisters, 1785 ; Visits to Cherryburn cease
- Convivial society in Newcastle ; Dinners, songs and music ; Northumberland pipes
- Pedestrian tours in Yorkshire, Cumberland and to Holy Island ; Work for provincial printers and publishers, and for William Bulmer, London
- The History of quadrupeds, 1790 ; Marriage ; Engraving of the Chillingham Bull ; Revd Christopher Gregson and other friends
- The History of British birds, 1797 ; Visit to Tunstall's museum at Wycliffe ; First drawings of birds ; Contributions from many correspondents
- General labour of the engraving shop ; Banknote production ; Methods of forgery prevention
- The Fables of Aesop, 1818 ; Observations on the French Revolution and agricultural improvements of the day
- Reflections on war and its horrors ; Pitt and Napoleon
- Game laws ; Conservation of the fisheries
- Visit to Edinburgh, 1823 ; Thoughts on monuments
- Methods of engraving on wood ; Techniques of printing
- Further notes on wood and copper engraving ; Apprentices
- Advice to artists ; Study of nature to be preferred.