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Crawhall (Joseph) Border Notes and Mixty-Maxty, the author's copy marked up for the printers, inscribed "Proof copy - for trials", with 1 original watercolour illustration inscribed "first rough sketch", 143pp., one of 50 copies of which 40 were for sale, lithographed throughout with several full-page illustrations by Joseph Crawhall II and III in facsimile of the original manuscript, some hand-coloured for the publisher, numerous hand-coloured woodcut illustrations in the text, occasional manuscript notes by the author including 4 verses on front and rear endpapers, 2 bookplates of Joseph Crawhall, original watercolour and several pp. of unique material tipped in, contemporary blue calf, rubbed, covers detached, t.e.g., 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1880. *** Unique copy of an extremely scarce work with some unpublished material. This marks the first appearance of Joseph Crawhall III drawings in a book. Dedicated to his friend, Charles Keene, the famous Punch illustrator.
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Bewick (Thomas) Thomas Bewick and the Fables of Aesop, 61pp., one of 518 copies, half-title, portrait frontispiece, biographical sketch by John W. Borden, history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger, illustrations by Bewick throughout, original leaf from the first edition of 1818 tipped in, original boards, dust-jacket, San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1983. *** The most collectable copy for the collector of angling books, this incorporates a leaf from the original 1818 Bewick edition, of the fable "The Angler and the Little Fish". Other copies of this book had different fables inserted. Bewick himself was no coarse fisherman for his fable begins "An angler caught a small trout ... ". The same fable in the classic 1722 edition of Aesop by Samuel Croxall begins with "A man was angling in a river and caught a small perch ... ".
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THACKERAY W.M. 'The Irish Sketch-Book' Chapman & Hall. London 1861. 8vo engr. Frontis. some spotting, hinges weak, bds. soiled. loss to spine. Tog. with HALL. MRS. S.C. 'Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character', Glasgow/London nd. revised edn. b&w illus. plus SQUIRE, Charles 'Celtic Myth and Legend', the Gresham Publishing Co. ND. cold & Monochrome plts. plus 3 others. (6)
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Thomas (Edward), An Historical Sketch of the Italian Art, 4to., London [n.d.], in fine Zaehnsdorf binding, red morocco stamped gilt with the Arms of Savoy within floral borders, panelled spine dated 1873 and all edges gilt; and The Collected works of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 2vols., 1901, in gilt stamped green calf
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