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Associated items in the box include most notably Middleton's innovative make-ready for printing this block, a build-up of layers of carefully cut layers to force the print page into the grooves of the engraved wood. There is also correspondence with the former owner, Everett Sentman of Lake Forest, and a 1944 holiday card with an engraving from a block of Bewick's printed by Middleton. The bulk of the box's contents though consists of fifty prints by Middleton of the "Crane Hawking"/"Heron taking an eel" vignette and fifty folders for them.

The small Bewick wood block, etc. group consists of the contents of a specially-made box, approx. 6" wide by 7" tall by 2" deep.  The box was created by Chicago avocational private printer R. Hunter Middleton, preserver and printer of Thomas Bewick's late 1700s-early 1800s wood engraved blocks. The block is Bewick's "Crane Hawking" vignette, as identified by Middleton on a small print.  This print is identified by Ian Bain (1981, p. 9) as "A heron taking an eel..." which was first published in British Birds, 1847.

One print in a simple stiff paper gray folder, 10" by 6.25," folded in thirds, with a window in the third section, folded under the first third. In the window is the print, a study of roman capitals Middleton "later used used" for "hand engraved boxwood bookplates." The block had been engraved in 1953, and though some proofs were made, no edition was printed prior to this one for a Caxton Club keepsake. (Taken from the colophon, on the back, the verso of the middle section of the folder.) The print is initialed in pencil in large fine capitals, centered under the print. in smaller pencil are the date "1985" immediately under the print block on the right and "56/275" in the same size and position on the left. The folder was printed at the Turtle Press of Chicago printer Bruce Beck.

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discarded pulls of prints from Bewick blocks recovered from Middleton's waste basket on a visit to his Chicago studio, 4722 Dover Street, ca. 1980. <o:p></o:p></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9.6pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pulls, of three different large and detailed blocks, show Middleton at work varying the inking of areas of the designs, probably with variations in his group of layers of his make-readies. <o:p></o:p></span>