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Crawhall, Joseph.
A Jubilee Thought.
Publisher: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, Newcastle-on-Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1887
Stock Code: 9641
First trade edition. Octavo, pp. 77, [1]. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Crawhall. Bound in illustrated publishers’ fawn thin card wraps. Always found in a fragile state. Wrappers lightly toned, withh upper joint split but holding, a small closed tear, and minor loss to corners and spine tips. Contents are clean and unmarked with bold crisp impressions. Compiled to celebrate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and illustrated throughout by Crawhall’s artfully naive and absurdly funny woodcuts. This copy has been gift inscribed by Joseph Crawhall II (1821-1896) to Thomas Hutchinson (1856-1938) of Pegswood, Morpeth. With late nineteenth century newspaper clippings relating to Crawhall, and a tipped in leaf between pp. 58 and 59 bearing an envelope addressed to Hutchinson in Crawhall’s distinctive hand. Thomas Hutchinson was an established Northumberland poet, avid book collector and the author of “Ballades of a Country Bookworm”, as well as several well received studies on the Romantic Poets. He frequently wrote to his contemporary authors and fastidiously saved this correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera by attaching them to his books, of which this copy is an example. £280.00