browne norroy (3 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1884). ND (1884) 1st edition. Small 8vo (145 x 198mm). Pp19. A story told in verse, with illustrations. Pictorial paper-covered stiff card covers. Price 6d. Stiff paper-covered boards. Spine quite worn with upper board almost detached o/w a very good copy. The biography of a whale in comic verse, decorated with many very good cartoon sketches by the author. "Norroy" was a pen-name used by Canadian artist, H.F. Browne. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1884). ND (1884) 1st edition. Small 8vo (143 x 192mm). Pp19+19. Illustrated with cartoon sketches & vignettes, patterned end-papers. Stiff pictorial boards with untitled green cloth spine. Stiff paper-covered boards. Corners worn & rubbed, inner hinges repaired with "Scotch tape." A good copy of a scarce item. The combined edition of these two childrens' books, written in comic verse and decorated with many very good cartoon sketches by the author. "Norroy" was a pen-name used by Canadian artist, H.F. Browne. .

/ Written and illustrated by "Norroy". London : Dean & Son, [1884]. [BOUND WITH] The Strange Adventures of a Carp. By "Norroy", author of A Tale of a Whale. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. Two works bound in one, octavo (190 x 145 mm), publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards (rubbed and with light edge wear), pp. 19; 19; illustrations throughout (some full-page); contents clean and sound, a very good example. These charmingly illustrated tragi-comic stories in verse are both first editions, which - although also issued separately - are here bound together in one volume by the publisher. "Norroy" was the pseudonym used by H. F. Browne, a Canadian illustrator with a playful eye for detail and a wickedly sharp wit. The first story is a biographical account of a whale, who is hunted by whalers and killed 'Dead as a door nail'. (His remains, however, can be seen in the local history museum and the stays of a bodice). The second narrates the adventures of a carp, as told to the author by a cod ?Of high renown and race? The carp meets a similarly sad fate to that of the whale: of course - he is caught and eaten.