Memoir, Chapter Fifteen

In this reading from Bewick's Memoir the engraver remembers falling ill, being nursed back to health against all the odds and resolving to publish a new edition of the Fables of Aesop. The book was harder to realise than he imagined, with eye strain and printing problems to be coped with. The text was finally published on 1st October 1818, however Bewick favoured the second edition of 1823.

Read by Stephen Tomlin (http://stevetomlin.co.uk/) at Cherryburn, October 2018.