A Tale of a Whale.

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

/ 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.

• Binding: Hardcover

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