Lot 1113: FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY. 1804-1872. A Good Natured Hint about California by Alfred Crowquill. [London]: D. Bogue, [1849].

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.