Publisher: | Ilkley.: The Scolar Press. | Edition: | Facsimile Edition; Published Date: 1976; First Published: 1883 | Illustrations: | Over 300 charming coloured woodcuts | Dimensions: | 280 x 225 mm (11 x 9 inches) - 27pp, [6pp], 21pp, [6pp], 25pp, [3pp], 30pp, [6pp], 27pp, [5pp], 20pp, [8pp], 15pp, [5pp], 48pp, [4pp]. | Appearance: | Grey hardback cloth spine over illustrated grey boards | Condition: | G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex lib with stamps to prelim and end pages. Traces of paper label and section cutaway from lower section of fep. Slight browning to pages within. |
Beatifully produced facsimile. Originally issued uncoloured in 1883 as eight separate chap-books and as a bound volume containing the eight parts. A small-number of volumes were made up with the illustrations hand-coloured, although there was considerable variation between copies, of which this is one. Joseph Crawhall, The Third (1821-1896) The second of the old Northumbrian family of Crawhall to distinguish himself artistically, Joseph Crawhall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined his father's ropery business as soon as he left school. Like his father, he took a keen interest in writing and painting in watercolours, and produced several books to which he contributed his own illustrations (and those of his son Joseph Crawhall, The Third). He was a close friend of Charles Keene, the famous 'Punch' illustrator, and collaborated with him on the production of many drawings for this publication: he would send sketches to Keene, with humorous comments, and Keene re-drew them for use in 'Punch'. A close friend of the descendants of Thomas Bewick, Crawhall was able to oversee the presentation of many of Bewick's original drawings to north-east societies and museums. Although he had no formal art-training, Joseph Crawhall's drawings show an immense sense of fun and form an amusing social document of the time.
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