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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Wept of the Wish Ton Wish
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (172 x 139 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2175
Notes:
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Heathcotes, or, The wept of Wish-Ton-Wish; published by the firm of G. Routledge & Co., probably sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Wept of Wish Ton Wish [at foot] Geo. Routledge London.
Inscription:
In pen on verso: [head] One shilling & six pence [center] The Heathcotes or the Wept of Wish Ton Wish [foot] Routledge London [at right, vertically] The Heathcotes 1/6.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Heathcotes, or, The wept of Wish-Ton-Wish.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography:
The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 64-65 (reproduced)
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