CRANE WRITES ON DESIGNING A MACE FOR THE SUFFRAGETTES
CRANE
(Walter, 1845-1915, Painter and Illustrator)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs SCRATCHERD
(Alice Cliff, 1842-1906, early British Suffragist) thanking her for her letter “& in reply beg to say that I shall be willing to design the mace you speak of. My fee for the design & working drawings would probably be about...” the figures has been removed, “If however, I made a complete model of it for the silversmith it would be about as much again. Though, of course, much would depend upon the amount of detail & invention introduced. I have no doubt I could get you an estimate for supplying the mace complete in silver & enamels or in silver-gilt if you preferred? If, again you preferred to name a limit of the amount you wished to spend upon the work one might be able to estimate upon that...”, 3 sides 8vo., 13 Holland St, Kensington, headed paper with his stylised Crane, 24th April
Item Date:
1901
Stock No:
42492
£225
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[CROWQUILL
(Alfred, 1805-1872, Pseudonym of A. Forrester, Humourist and Illustrator)]
The Front Cover Illustration for his book “How he Reigned and How He Mizzled”
showing a fierce looking train with the title ‘A Railway Raillery’ on the funnel, 9” x 6”, printed by J. Harwood, London,
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
43153
£75
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CRUIKSHANK
(George, 1792-1878, Artist & Caricaturist, Illustrator of Dickens)
Enormous signature, with the date
addressed to “William Baldwin Esq” on 1 side oblong 8vo., 27th October
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
42626
£225
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CRUIKSHANK
(George, 1792-1878, Caricaturist & Illustrator)
Autograph Letter Signed to Messrs Simmons & Bottor
saying that "with reference to the title page of 'Puss in Boots' of Stereotype it may stand as it is for this Edition - if not then merely put the name of A or 'Alfred Arnold ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, 10th May
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
40939
£150
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LETTER WITH ORIGINAL SKETCHES
CRUIKSHANK
(George, 1792-1878, Caricaturist & Illustrator)
Draft Autograph Letter, Unsigned
to 'Sir', ending unfinished on Side 1, followed on Side 2 by a list of things to do and people to contact, Cruikshank apologises that "your letter of the 25th of last month came to hand ... my hands were so full ... all I could do was to read it and lay it upon the table with many others ...", followed by faint pencil, he continues in ink "which although good feeling exists on the part of all parties - it requires ... to have cemented those bonds of union & friendship between [members] of the different classes of society - & which I believe only require a proper confidence to carry into effect", this suggests that the letter concerns one of the humanitarian causes he was increasingly involved in, chiefly the temperance movement, which is reinforced on Side 2 by such names as Cobden and in particular Dickens, with whom he had had such a close relation as his most famous illustrator, but, as a 'moderationist' as regards alcohol, was concerned that Cruikshank was overdoing total abstinence, other entries are "Steel plates / Etchings ground / British Gallery / ... Write to George / ... Coal / Boots / Umbrella ...", and, not least, Uncle Toms [Cabin] which had created a furore in America this present year, and which Cruikshank illustrated for Cassell's, one of many competing editions in the UK, finally in pencil he writes 'History of a Leaf', and MAG in large decorative capital letters, 2 sides tall 8vo., 48 Mornington Place (later 263 Hampstead Road, N.W.1), 27th November
Item Date:
1852
Stock No:
55779
£350
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