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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for We are All Low People There
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches (172 x 121 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2227
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Lettered within design: We Are All Low People There [at foot] George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street [at foot spine design] 1s.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Samuel Phillips's We are all low people there; published by the firm of George Routledge & Co., sometime during the 1850's.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Phillips, Samuel, 1814-1854. We are all low people there.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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