A Bundle of Crowquills, Alfred Crowquill, 1854 [First Edition]

£27.00

Description:

A mid-Victorian humorous miscellany by Alfred Crowquill (the pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester), combining satire, sketches, and light literary parody. Characteristic of Crowquill’s eccentric style and playful commentary on contemporary letters, the volume reflects the popular comic literature of the 1850s.

Condition:

Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Binding is firm. Pages are moderately tanned and lightly foxed. Light thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with darkening to edges and light bumping to corners. Fraying to spine ends.

Description:

A mid-Victorian humorous miscellany by Alfred Crowquill (the pseudonym of Alfred Henry Forrester), combining satire, sketches, and light literary parody. Characteristic of Crowquill’s eccentric style and playful commentary on contemporary letters, the volume reflects the popular comic literature of the 1850s.

Condition:

Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Binding is firm. Pages are moderately tanned and lightly foxed. Light thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with darkening to edges and light bumping to corners. Fraying to spine ends.

A Bundle of Crowquills, dropped by Alfred Crowquill, in his eccentric flight over the fields of literature.

Alfred Crowquill

1854

G. Routledge & Co

First Edition

Small 8vo

p.245