Browne Norroy (5 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). (1884) 2007 new facsimile edition. Pp19,ii. B/w cartoon illustrations, decorated end-papers. Red cloth, upper board titled & decorated in gilt. Total edition limited to 150 signed & numbered copies (125 in cloth & 25 in leather). Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Signed & numbered by the publisher, Tom O'Reilly. Victorian biography of a carp in comic verse, decorated with many very good cartoon sketches by the author. This edition is limited to 150 copies, (125 in cloth and 25 in leather), signed and numbered by the publisher, Tom O'Reilly. This is one of 125 cloth-bound copies. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). (1884) 2007 new facsimile edition - de luxe leather-bound issue. Pp19,ii. B/w cartoon illustrations, decorated end-papers. Full red leather, spine & upper board titled & decorated in gilt. Edition limited to 25 signed & numbered copies leather-bound copies. Fine new copy in slipcase. Signed & numbered by the publisher, Tom O'Reilly. Victorian biography of a carp in comic verse, decorated with many very good cartoon sketches by the author. Total edition limited to 150 copies, (125 in cloth and 25 in leather), signed and numbered by the publisher, Tom O'Reilly. This is one of 25 leather copies. .

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.