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CRAWHALL, Joseph, Senior. Manuscript Commonplace Book. London: circa 1894-1896. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED copy of Crawhall's Impresses Quaint . Newcastle upon-Tyne: Mawon, Swan and Morgan, 1889. 4°. (270 x 208mm), 100pp. hand-coloured illustrations. Original cloth-backed printed boards (scuffed and bowed, hinges weak), in modern morocco-backed buckram box. One of 300 copies. The integral blank pages form the commonplace book of Joseph Crawhall Senior, including 47 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR SKETCHES AND CARICATURES BY CRAWHALL with manuscript captions, and approximately 21 pages of manuscript notes, verses and snatches of music by Crawhall, as well as related photographs, cuttings, letters, book-plates, guide-books and sale catalogues, many loosely inserted, including and an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM JOSEPH CRAWHALL JUNIOR TO HIS FATHER, from Bank, Lyndhurst, Hants., [15 May 1895], 4pp., 8°, sending birthday Provenance : The Crawhall family, by descent; sold by Mr. Crawhall-Wood (grandson of Joseph Crawhall ?Senior) in 1972; acquired by Dr. Dallas Pratt in 1973. [Together with:] Joseph CRAWHALL Senior. Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces. London: Field and Tuer and others, and New York: Scribner and Welford, 1883. 9 parts in one volume, 4° (300 x 220mm). Original printed paper wrapper to each part, hand-coloured illustrations by Joseph Crawhall Senior and Junior, prospectus for Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets (2pp.) at end. Original half cloth over printed boards (slightly spotted, extremities of spine frayed), in modern morocco-backed buckram box. Limited edition. (2)