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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Joseph Crawhall our chapbook artist inherited the rope business whi he carried on successfully until his retirement in 1877. Evidently howeve he had plenty of spare time in which to win renown as a sportsma scholar philosopher author editor and il rator. In 1859 he printed am published his own whimsical work The Compleatest Angling Booke the ever was writ. This contained reproductions of old prints as well as origina art; the original pieces were in varied media but already Crawhall’s pred lection for the old-fashioned woodcut was in evidence. This archaizing thick-lined woodcut style (used in deliberate “nostal gic contrast to the then-prevalent subtler “white-line” wood engraving popularized by that other great son of Newcastle Thomas Bewick) was to be Crawhall’s chief illustrative medium in his later books. Among the most important of these were Newcastle Fishers’ Garlands (1864) Chaplets from Coquet-side (1873; the Coquet is a Northumbrian river and this book too was concerned with fishing) Border Notes & Mixty-Maxty (1880) Chap-book Chaplets (1883) and Olde ffrendes wyth new Faces (1888). In the original limited editions the woodcuts (which Crawhall referred to as “sculptures”) were hand-colored. All these books had some text original or traditional. (LL)