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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Useful Library: Cookery
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 11/16 x 4 1/16 inches (170 x 103 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2204
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Lettered within design: The Useful Library - Cookery - London George Routledge & Co.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for a volume on cookery from the Useful library series, published by the firm of George Routledge sometime during in the 1850's.
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In pen on verso: The smaller [inverted at foot] The Useful Library [vertically in margin at right] Thickness of Russia.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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