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MACKENZIE, Kenneth R. H.
The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass. Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue ... adorned with many most diverting and cunning devices by Alfred Crowquill
Tyll Owlglass, an unintelligent yet cunning peasant, shows his superiority over the dishonest and patronizing townspeople, clergy, and nobility through a series of pranks and practical jokes.
- Published
- London: Trubner & Co., 1860.
- Plates
- 6
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Trubner & Co., 1860.
- Ref
- 979
Second edition. Small 8vo, pp. xliii, [1], 255; wood-engraved frontispiece (in pagination), six hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, and several wood engravings set in the text; a very good copy in splendid original pictorial red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on upper board and spine, all edges gilt. Blind stamped on lower board. A signature on a prelim. Coloured plates in order: 1. How Owlglass catcheth the thieves. 2. How Owlglass, turneth doctor. 3. How Owlglass maketh the cock the security for the hens. 4. How Owlglass boileth hops. 5. How Owlglass sold puss. 6. How Owlglass rebuked the priest's covetousness.
