Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "The History of Margaret Catchpole"
7 3/8 x 5 7/16 inches (188 x 138 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2190
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered within design: The History of Margaret Catchpole by the Rev. R. Cobbold - London Thomas Hodgson.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Richard Cobbold novel The History of Margaret Catchpole; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's, as v. 74 of their Parlour library series.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Richard Cobbold novel The History of Margaret Catchpole; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's, as v. 74 of their Parlour library series.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso: Parlour 74; in pen: Hodgson [at foot, inverted] This fold shorter in design.
Associated names
Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877. History of Margaret Catchpole.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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