Lot 262
Crawhall (Joseph) A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, [one of 50 large paper copies with additional illustrations], some hand-coloured, Newcastle, 1864.
Hammer Price: £400
Description
Crawhall (Joseph, editor) A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, [one of 50 large paper copies with additional illustrations], half-title, title in red and black with woodcut device, etched or wood-engraved plates on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, woodcut or wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments, a few plates and illustrations hand-coloured, a good clean copy, bookplate of Nicholas Johnson Robinson of Preston Tower with 4pp. 'Newcastle Fisher's Garland' by Joseph Watson and single sheet poem 'Rothbury' by Watson tipped in, both with signatures and manuscript notes in red & black ink by N.J.Robinson, handsomely-bound for Robinson in contemporary panelled calf, gilt, ?by Waters of Newcastle, upper cover with panel containing title & owner's name & decorations in gilt with small illustrations in black after Crawhall, lower cover with onlaid snakeskin panel, spine gilt with red and green labels and fish motif, g.e., [Westwood &Satchell p.69], 4to, Newcastle, George Rutland, 1864.
⁂ N.J.Robinson was evidently a member of the Newcastle Angling Club. One of his notes reads, " I first caught a trout with rod & line, and at same time threw a line for the first time in Bonnie Coquet's streams, (and at Rothbury) in 1865".
Description
Crawhall (Joseph, editor) A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, [one of 50 large paper copies with additional illustrations], half-title, title in red and black with woodcut device, etched or wood-engraved plates on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, woodcut or wood-engraved illustrations and ornaments, a few plates and illustrations hand-coloured, a good clean copy, bookplate of Nicholas Johnson Robinson of Preston Tower with 4pp. 'Newcastle Fisher's Garland' by Joseph Watson and single sheet poem 'Rothbury' by Watson tipped in, both with signatures and manuscript notes in red & black ink by N.J.Robinson, handsomely-bound for Robinson in contemporary panelled calf, gilt, ?by Waters of Newcastle, upper cover with panel containing title & owner's name & decorations in gilt with small illustrations in black after Crawhall, lower cover with onlaid snakeskin panel, spine gilt with red and green labels and fish motif, g.e., [Westwood &Satchell p.69], 4to, Newcastle, George Rutland, 1864.
⁂ N.J.Robinson was evidently a member of the Newcastle Angling Club. One of his notes reads, " I first caught a trout with rod & line, and at same time threw a line for the first time in Bonnie Coquet's streams, (and at Rothbury) in 1865".