Author: Alfred Crowquill
Title: Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple and His Five Disciples Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zany, and Foozle
Description: London, Trubner & Co. 1861. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated collection of the English translation of these Tamil stories. With a charming coloured frontispiece and many charming in text vignettes. Alfred Henry Forrester, often known under his pseudonym Alfred Croquill was an English author, comics artist, illustrator and artist who was soon associated with writing for a number of periodicals including Colburn's New Monthly, Bentley and Punch magazine. As well as his many works of short stories, songs and children's stories, he was also a prolific illustrator, and worked on wood, specialising in anthropomorphic animals. This collection of his stories is a fascinating English paraphrase of the story of Guru Paramartan, and is based on a translation of the original Tamil stories. In a red cloth binding. Externally smart with bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Slight loss to the cloth at the head of the spine. Fading to the spine. Marks to the boards. Very small area of damp staining to lower extremity of spine. Front hinge slightly strained but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and marginal age toning. Frontispiece is detached but present. Good . Ill.: Alfred Crowquill. Good .

Keywords: Gooroo Simple Alfred Crowquill Noodle Colburn's New Monthly Alfred Crowquill Punch Alfred Crowquill


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