Item #43491 Tales of Magic and Meaning. With an Original Pen and Ink Illustration. Alfred Crowquill, Pseud. of Alfred Henry Forrester.
Tales of Magic and Meaning. With an Original Pen and Ink Illustration

Tales of Magic and Meaning. With an Original Pen and Ink Illustration

London: Grant and Griffith, 1856. Hardcover. Good. Item #43491

Small Octavo, pp. x, 175, 32 - publisher's [Griffith and Farran] adverts., 4 plates. Bookplate of collector, Aubrey Heywood Jones, (1892), designed and etched, and with original verse by Herbert Jones, for a collection of folk-lore books. Half dark brown calf over pebbled cloth boards. Covers scuffed, rubbed, and slightly soiled, bit of chipping at spine ends, corners rounded and the front board re-attached. Prelims and endpages browned, occasional thumbing, otherwise a good and clean copy. Includes an original pen and ink drawing signed by Alfred Crowquill. [180 x 220mm]. Watermarked, cream laid paper, with pen & ink illustration to one panel with the caption: "My dear Miss Pardoe / I should be proud to possess your / hand . . . writing. Your Admirerer / Alfred Crowquill". "No. 40" is written in ink at the top right, and a very, very tiny embossed circular stamp is at the top left. "Miss Pardoe" is likely the English poet, novelist, historian and traveller, Julia Pardoe (1806-1862), a contemporary of Crowquill, who often had articles in the same monthly magazines with him. Two faint horizontal fold lines, else near fine, clean original drawing.

Price (CAD): $575.00