A binding design by Alfred Crowquill for W. H. Maxwell’s<span

class="book">Border Tales. (original) (raw)

Book cover

Alfred Crowquill

[1854]

Paper, ink, watercolour, graphite

6¾ 4½ inches

A binding incorporating a Gothic motif. The name ‘Cooper’ is struck out – Crowquill seems to have confused the book with ‘The Borderers’ by James Fenimore Cooper. Reproduced with permission of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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