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  • Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) UK, Drawing
    Dec. 12, 2021

    Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) UK, Drawing

    Est: $100 - $200

    Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) UK, Drawing - Pencil and pen & ink design for front cover of "Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches, by the Baron Krakemsides of Burstoudelafen" and 1853 volume of humor published London, by Grant & Griffith. Condition commensurate with age. Size: 12 x 9 5/8 in.

    Sarasota Estate Auction
  • ALFRED CROWQUILL'S COMIC HISTORY OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
    Jan. 18, 2020

    ALFRED CROWQUILL'S COMIC HISTORY OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

    Est: $250 - $400

    ALFRED CROWQUILL'S COMIC HISTORY OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND Ca.1850. Now in four frames. 36 hand-colored lithographe portraits with text above and below. Largest frame 6"h. 42"w.

    Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers
  • FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY. 1804-1872. A Good Natured Hint about California by Alfred Crowquill. [London]: D. Bogue, [1849].
    Sep. 21, 2016

    FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY. 1804-1872. A Good Natured Hint about California by Alfred Crowquill. [London]: D. Bogue, [1849].

    Est: $2,500 - $3,500

    FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY. 1804-1872. A Good Natured Hint about California by Alfred Crowquill. [London]: D. Bogue, [1849]. Oblong 12mo (122 x 210 mm). Single sheet folded into 8 accordion lithographed leaves with a total of 35 illustrated panels on rectos with text beneath. Original lithographed front cardstock wrapper, modern back wrapper. Custom chemise and slipcase. Accordion format professionally reassembled, light soiling and a few marginal repairs with resultant slight discoloration to margins of last two plates. A humorous look at the gold rush from a founder of Punch, writing under his pseudonym Alfred Crowquill. In a series of 35 illustrated panels we follow the Englishman Mivins who, dreaming of adventure, sails to California to seek his fortune in the gold fields, finds nothing but misfortune, and finally makes his way back home to the arms of his mother. ABPC records only 4 copies (including the present copy) at auction since 1981. Cowan II p 218; Howes F268.

    Bonhams
  • Alfred Crowquill (British, 1804-1872) A book cover or calendar design
    Mar. 20, 2013

    Alfred Crowquill (British, 1804-1872) A book cover or calendar design

    Est: £100 - £150

    Alfred Crowquill (British, 1804-1872) A book cover or calendar design watercolour on card, inscribed 'April' in pencil 10 1/2 x 5in. (26.75 x 12.75cm.), together with an amusing pen, ink and sepia wash book plate by the same hand, 3 3/4 x 4 5/8in. (9.5 x 11.75cm.) and a charcoal and watercolour sketch by the illustrator H. K. Brown, all unframed. (3)

    Martel Maides
  • ALFRED CROWQUILL (British, 1804-1872) Book Cover Design
    Sep. 12, 2012

    ALFRED CROWQUILL (British, 1804-1872) Book Cover Design

    Est: $400 - $600

    ALFRED CROWQUILL (British, 1804-1872) Book Cover Design for Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist by Henry Cockton (Alfred Henry Forrester (aka Alfred Crowquill)), circa 1860-70 Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper laid on board 7-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches (18.4 x 15.9 cm) PROVENANCE: Private collection, Long Island, New York.

    Heritage Auctions
  • [DICKENS, CHARLES.] CROWQUILL, ALFRED (ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER). 1804-1873.
    Oct. 18, 2011

    [DICKENS, CHARLES.] CROWQUILL, ALFRED (ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER). 1804-1873.

    Est: $2,000 - $3,000

    CROWQUILL, ALFRED (ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER). 1804-1873. Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers. [wrapper title]. London: Ackermann & Co., May 1-November 9, 1837. 10 parts. 8vo (228 x 148 mm). 40 hand-colored lithographic plates by Crowquill. Original pictorial buff side-stitched wrappers. Custom clamshell case. Some browning to inner margins of plates (not affecting illustrations), stitching renewed, some light wear and finger soiling to wrappers, light soiling and minor repair to wrappers of part 5. Provenance. William E. Self (bookplate to case, Christie's April 2, 2008, lot 27). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BI-MONTHLY PARTS, THE SELF COPY. Featuring nearly 200 figures on 40 plates, offered as extra-illustrations to Chapman and Hall's monthly issues of The Posthumous Paper of the Pickwick Club. Each plates-part accompanied two parts of the novel. Yale/Gimbel H1077. Pictures Picked from the Pickwick Papers. [London: F.T. Sabin, 1880]. 8vo (222 x 141). 40 hand-colored etched plates after Crowquill. Green pictorial cloth backed wrappers. Light finger soiling to wrappers. Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate to inside of front wrapper). F.T. SABIN RE-ISSUE, with plates newly etched on copper by F.W. Pailthorpe. Yale/Gimbel H1079.

    Bonhams
  • [ILLUSTRATION ART] "CROWQUILL, ALFRED" (1804-1872). Original watercolor on gray paper,
    Nov. 01, 2010

    [ILLUSTRATION ART] "CROWQUILL, ALFRED" (1804-1872). Original watercolor on gray paper,

    Est: $600 - $900

    [ILLUSTRATION ART] "CROWQUILL, ALFRED" (1804-1872). Original watercolor on gray paper, traces of graphite outlining the extent of the drawing, ruled in ink on three sides, signed (l.l.) as Alfred Crowquill. 13 3/8 (to arched top of drawing) x 10 1/2 inches (34 x 17 cm). Lower edge of sheet folded over, not affecting the drawing, some age toning, drawing generally in very nice condition.. A highly unusual fantasy drawing depicting a winged girl afloat in a curious nautilus shell vessel, apparently in the English Channel (the cliffs of Dover appear in the distance). Alfred Henry Forrester (early on in conjunction with his brother, Charles Robert Forrester), illustrated many children's books and works of caricature.

    DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
  • [PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of Alfred Henry FORRESTER, 1804-1873). The Pickwickians . London: Ackermann & Co., 1 May - 9 November 1837.
    Apr. 02, 2008

    [PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of Alfred Henry FORRESTER, 1804-1873). The Pickwickians . London: Ackermann & Co., 1 May - 9 November 1837.

    Est: $2,000 - $3,000

    [PICKWICK PAPERS]. -- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of Alfred Henry FORRESTER, 1804-1873). The Pickwickians. London: Ackermann & Co., 1 May - 9 November 1837. 10 bi-monthly/monthly parts, 8o (230 x 147 mm). 40 hand-colored lithographic plates, dated and with publisher's imprint, by Crowquill (lightly and unevenly browned, some minor spotting). Original cream pictorial printed wrappers (stitching renewed, backstrips a bit rubbed, some edges creased, minor repairs to front wrapper of Part 5); green cloth folding box. Four plates in each part designed to extra-illustrate two numbers of the Chapman and Hall monthly issue of Pickwick Papers, May 1836 - November 1837. Yale/Gimbel H1077. [With:] CROWQUILL, Alfred. Lithographic proof of two plates from Part 6 The Pickwickians. London: Ackermann & Co., 1 August 1837. Signed "AC" 1 pp. 4o (201 x 270 mm), captions supplied by Crowquill in pencil. (Extracted from an album, central vertical crease.) [With:] CROWQUILL, Alfred -- PAILTHORPE, F.W. The Pickwickians. [London: F.T. Sabin, 1880]. 8o (222 x 140 mm) 40 hand-colored etched plates by Pailthorpe after Crowquill (lightly browned, occasionally thumbed). Original green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut (rebacked, edges creased with one or two short tears). Provenance: Kenyon Starling (bookplate). Faithful copies of Crowquill's originals. Yale/Gimbel H1079. (3)

    Christie's
  • A sporting incident
    Dec. 19, 2007

    A sporting incident

    Est: £300 - £500

    Alfred Crowquill (1804-1872) A sporting incident brown and black ink and watercolour, unframed 8¼ x 6½ in. (21 x 16.5 cm.)

    Christie's
  • CROWQUILL, ALFRED
    Jun. 14, 2007

    CROWQUILL, ALFRED

    Est: $400 - $600

    CROWQUILL, ALFRED Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple, and His Five Disciples, Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zane and Foozle. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861 12mo., 3/4 leather-backed marbled boards, gilt-decorated backstrip over 5 raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. First edition. Contains 50 engraved illustrations and color illustrated frontispiece. Wear to edges and extremes of boards and backstrip; rubbing to boards; front endpaper through frontispiece loose from binding; light foxing to first and last few leaves; otherwise text clean.

    Hindman
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