The Craftsman's Tradition EAL'Sattempts to carry on the traditions of furniture design in a worthy manner, to express the ideas of the time rather than be content merely to reproduce the ideas of the past, are a definite contribution to modern craftsmanship. Heal & Son Ltd TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD W BOOKS OF THE DAY ON VIEW AT THE TIMES BOOK CLUB, 380 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, WJ. Booklovers are invited to make a personal inspection if possible, or to write for a catalogue, which will be sent post free. LONDON, OCTOBER 9, 1920. CONTENTS.- No. 130. Account Books, 287-Burial of Remains of Scrolls of the QUERIES:-Coronation of Louis XI-Porcelain Masonic printed, notwithstanding the book is now scarce and expensive. Copy "No. 1" is in the British Museum Library. No copy is in the Print Room, British Museum where the etchings by the Cruikshanks that are not in books are kept, but this deficiency does not so much matter as it is partly compensated for by the collection being arranged in order of date, and every print is numbered in pencil after Reid's Catalogue, which is in the Print Room. There is also an extraordinarily miscellaneous collection of Cruikshanks in the Print Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum in eight enormous boxes, which I have been right through, as they are open to inspection. This includes proofs of the illustrations to novels, early sketches on Merchant. 291-Aldgate and Whitechapel-Silver Wine letters, backs of prints, and any odd bits Cisterns for Cooling Wine Bottles, 294-" Heightem, of paper that happened to be at hand! Tightem and Scrub"-Novels of the North WoodsDomestic History in the Nineteenth Century, 295-Sydney Paper was dear in those days. I am told Smith's Last Flicker of Fun"-St. Anthony of Padua this collection was bequeathed by George The Miraculous Host of Wilsnack - Missing Words: Cruikshank ! Of this there is no catalogue; Recovery Desired-Francis Gastrell, 296-French Songs Wanted-Principal London Coffee-houses, Taverns and to make one would be an enormous work, Inns-Die Englische Pferdedressur - The University as it is so miscellaneous. Oddly enoughFamily Bible: Henry Southwell - Kitty Clive, 297 as in the National Library-Captain 'Stalky & Co.'-The Vagaries of Indexers-Stourhead and Alexander Pope-Bedfordshire Churchyard Inscriptions Douglas's Catalogue (it is No. 81) is not in the -Bibliography of Lepers in England-Romney Marsh-Victoria and Albert Museum Print depart North American Indians, 293. NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Chronicle of Muntaner.' Notes. THE CRUIKSHANKS, ARTISTS, AND ment, but in the 'Art Library.' Neither the Print Department at the V. & A. nor the Library has Reid's Catalogue, but at the V. & A. in the Library Catalogue they usefully, under Reid, give a reference to Douglas. So that now times of peace have come, it appears to me there is still a want for another Cruikshank Catalogue if only on account of the price of the present catalogues. Reid's, I believe was issued at twelve guineas and Douglas's at two. There are probably many more omissions, &c., in Douglas, that I have not noticed; in so great a work, it is impossible to prevent themat all events in a first edition. IN the elaborate and carefully compiled catalogue of The Works of George Cruikshank by the late Captain Richard John The Cruikshanks drew more for J. H. Hardy Douglas, R.N., published in 1903, Jameson the juvenile theatrical publisher which I referred to in my note on G. Cruik-than for West; in fact, I believe all Jameshank and G. Childs (12 S. i. 203), he attri- son's are by the Cruikshanks. butes to the Cruikshanks many prints of various kinds for the Juvenile theatrical drama,' some of them intended to be used for the Juvenile or Toy Theatre for example those Captain Hardy numbers from 1013 to 1029 published by J. H. Jameson, and by Hodgson & Co. None of Hodgson's prints that I have seen are by Cruikshank. As to Hodgson's I made some comments in my note on 'Cruikshank and Childs,' quoted above. Captain Douglas states that The following is a list of all the West prints that I know, that I consider to be by George or his brother Isaac Robert, commonly written J. R. Cruikshank, with the numbers of Reid's and Douglas's Catalogues. It will be seen how few were known to Douglas, and fewer still to Reid. They are all by George except those to which I have put I. R. C.'s initials, for none are signed. Captain Douglas's list is in chronological order, but I arrange mine alphabetically, as after years. The figures put after Douglas's numbers are his approximate values, interesting but of little use now, as prices have gone up, in consequence of the American demand. The following are mostly in quarto, but two quarto sheets were always on a folio sized copper plate, and printed together. West's characters in : 'Comus':-I have this on the right of two quarto sheets forming an oblong folio sheet, dated May 21, 1815. Reid No., 483; Douglas No., 1006, value 68. 'The Merry Wives of Windsor ':-on the left, dated May 24, 1815. The date was put to secure copyright, in compliance with the Acts but I apprehend that this difference in the dates, printed from one copper plate and on one sheet of paper, printed at the same time, vitiated the copyright. Perhaps one of your learned contributors would be kind enough to say whether I am right or not? 'Coriolanus -a charming set of fifteen small characters, on one plate to ten scenes, May 21, 1815. The scenes are all architectural and well done, but not by the Cruikshanks: the perspective hopelessly wrong, though they look right to any one who has not studied perspective. I have the ten scenes dated Dec. 14, 1815, and also a set redated 1824. 'Hamlet':-one plate of small characters, Mar. 16, 1815. The year is altered on a later print to Mar. 16, 1825. Harlequin Brilliant; or The Clown's Capers' fifteen small comic characters on the right of an oblong folio sheet, with the Welch Chieftains ' on the left. I have the two on one folio sheet, July 20, 1815. Reid No. 497; Douglas No. 1007, 6s. Harlequin and Fancy; or The Poet's Last Shilling,' Drury Lane, Dec. 26, 1815, is G. C.'s finest set, it is on three folio plates. The water mark on my plates 1 and 2, dated Feb. 7, 1816, is 1829, but that on plate 3, dated Feb. 21, 1816, is "Whatman, 1828," and this sheet is larger than the other two, an unusual thing-but West could not be depended on for regularity in anything. The Yorkshire Giant,' six inches high on plate 2. In front of him is Simon Paap,' one and a half inches high. Fancy Columbine, was Miss Tree, sister to Mrs. Charles Kean. The Poet was J. P. Harley, whom I recollect in 'The Corsican Brothers' at the Princess's Theatre in 1852. Clown Paulo; Harlequin Hope; Pantaloon = May; Lover= J. Ebsworth. Feb. 7, 1816. Reid No. 564; Douglas No. 1008, value 30s. [Harlequin and Fortunio],* or Shing Moo and Thun Ton (Covent Garden Theatre), Jan. 19, 1816. The above oblong folio sheet of characters was redated Jan. 19, 1827. 'Harlequin Whittington' (Covent Garden Theatre), in three plates of characters, Jan. 7, 1815. Capt. Douglas's prints were the re-issue redated 1825. *It seems to me extraordinary, but in those days they frequently spoke of a play by the The Print Room has no print of plate 3: see vol. i. folio 95, but in vol. iv. folio 53 is G. Cruikshank's original pencil sketch for plate 3, in Harlequin Whittington.' The clown (Grimaldi) is standing in the fencing on guard" and in the usual wrong position of " position represented by artists, with the weight of the body on both feet, or on the right instead of the left foot. This figure is reproduced the same size on the front of the late John Salkeld's Catalogue, No. 349, December, 1901. His son informed me that he had not the block. "The High Mettled Racer' (new pantomime) in four plates of small characters, May 5, 1815. Redated May 5, 1825. I have proof before letters of plate 1; also the prints in which West has written the names of the actors. I also have them on the folio sheets as issued, July 17, 1815. Plates 3 and 4 were not issued until West's address was altered from Exeter Street to Wych Street, and dated July 17, 1825. 'Illusion [or the Trances of Nourjahad '], dated Nov. 7, 1814. This is on the right, of an oblong folio sheet, with characters in Richard III.' on the left, dated Nov. 14, 1814. The scenes were dated Oct. 25, 1814 (redated 1825), and the characters, Nov. 7, an indication that West could not get the drawings from Cruikshank, as characters were usually issued first. Jack Spratt and his Cat' [i.e., Harlequin and Jack,' &c.], Jan. 29, 1817. This plate of fifteen small characters is carelessly drawn, but every character is brimful of fun what the boys would call "a regular lark." The scenes are also funny from their childishness. The scenes probably by J. R. C.? I find no record of the performance. The mark of the copper-plate is all round my print, showing that it was not on a folio sheet. 'Lady of the Lake,' in two plates [by I. R. C.], Aug. 5, 1811. I have early proofs, and proofs after the plates have been worked on, necessitated by number of prints taken from the copper, which wears off when numbers of impressions are taken; this is now obviated by coating the etched surface with steel. 'The Little Hunchback,' P. R. iv. 29, July 5, 1815; redated July 5, 1825. I have this on the left of an oblong folio sheet, with Telemachus ' on the right: same date. Douglas No. 1011; puts the value at 10s. 'Lodoiska' [by I. R. C.], Aug. 21, 1811. I have early prints, and prints afterwards worked on and address altered from Exeter Street to 57 Wych Street, and redated Aug. 21, 1824. Macbeth '[by I. R. C.], July 31, 1811. I have two sets of the two plates: the first bought at the sale after West's death, 1855; the second I bought of Blackwell, then of the Turnstile, Holborn, about 1884, and plate 2 is endorsed by him, 66 etched by Robert Cruikshank." I also have proof before letters of plate 2, which is very superior to the prints, showing they are redrawn by Cruikshank and are not tracings. Blackwell is given as an authority by Capt. Douglas, but |