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Crawhall, Joseph.
A Jubilee Thought.
Publisher: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, Newcastle-on-Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1887
Stock Code: 9642
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 77, [1]. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Crawhall. Bound in half faux velum and illustrated publishers’ paper over boards with black titles to upper board and spine and hand-coloured woodcut devices to boards. Smaller black and white copies bound in paper wrappers were also printed simultaneously, this one of the few extant hand-coloured '50 Large Paper Copies' measuring 260 x 215 mm. Boards lightly soiled with some minor loss to spine and first few leaves; toning, as usual, mainly to endpapers; tight, square and secure with clean bright contents free of marks or annotations, impressions are bold and crisp with bright and vivid colouring. Compiled to celebrate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and illustrated throughout with Crawhall’s hand-coloured, artfully naive, vernacular woodcuts. Joseph Crawhall II (1821-1896) was a Newcastle artist, rope-maker, and antiquarian with his unique anachronistic style ushering in the chapbook revival of the 1890s. Despite his historical influences his bold and graphic work still feels incredibly contemporary and vivid. Necessarily rare. £400.00