Alfred Crowquill

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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for A Shilling Cookery for the People
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches (169 x 128 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2217

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Lettered within design: Soyer's Shilling Cookery for the Million [last word struck out in pen] G. Routledge & Co. London & New York [at foot] One Shilling or Twenty Five Cents.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Alexis Soyer's A shilling cookery for the people; published by the firm of George Routledge & Co., probably sometime during the 1850's.

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In ink on verso: Soyer's Shilling Cookery for the People.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858. Shilling cookery for the people.

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