A JOURNAL KEPT BY RICHARD DOYLE IN THE YEAR 1840, illustrated with several hundred sketches by the author.

[BAWDEN, Edward]; DOYLE, Richard; introduction by POLLEN, J. Hungerford:

Published by London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886

About this Item

Edward Bawden's copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown and his son Richard Bawden's ink signature above. Second edition. Quarto. Publisher's original pictorial yellow cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Doyle and profusely throughout with black and white drawings by Doyle. pp. xii, [2], 152. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little marking and dust-soling to the boards and spine. The contents with scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and a little creasing to the tissue-guard are otherwise in good order. The entertaining, extensively illustrated teenage journal of the nineteenth-century illustrator Richard Doyle (1824-1883), best known for his fairy illustrations and humorous drawings, this copy owned by the painter, illustrator and printmaker Edward Bawden (1903-1989), one of the principal members of the influential Great Bardfield community of artists. Bawden had a keen interest in the history of illustration throughout his life, studying from childhood onwards the work of the great Victorian and Edwardian artist-illustrators, including Richard Doyle, in whom he took a particular interest during his time at the Cambridge School of Art (1919-21). Bawden formed a voluminous library concerning the illustrators he admired, from which he drew inspiration in the creation of his own work. A pleasing association copy. Provenance: By family decent from the library of Edward Bawden, with his bookplate.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A JOURNAL KEPT BY RICHARD DOYLE IN THE YEAR 1840, illustrated with several hundred sketches by the author.
• Publisher: London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
• Publication Date: 1886
• Binding: Soft cover