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Published by London: Chatto and Windus., 1876
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Art / Print / Poster
Condition: Good. Wood-engravings. 245 x 83mm. page size. As printed in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs by Walter Thornbury. Gordon Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, no. 163; Osterwalder, Dictionnaire des illustrateurs, 1800-1914, pp. 548, 596, 723.
Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1876
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. A basic very good copy with a little cocking and fraying where the cloth yaps (folds over) the spine texblock, corners worn and showing a bit. Faint contemporary prize inscription on the half title, contents otherwise clean. xxiv, 282 pp. + adverts, all edges gilt. Frontis-piece and 81 illustrations by J. Whistler, F. Walker, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson, W. Small, F. Sandys, G. J. Pinwell, T. Morten, M. J. Lawless, and many others.
Published by Boston: Gill., 1876
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Art / Print / Poster
Condition: Good. 4to, Original gilt cloth and brown eps, AEG, repaired. xxiv, 282 pp. + adverts. Gordon Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, no. 163; The contributors are: Author:Walter Thornbury (British, London 1828?1876 London)Artist: After Edward Henry Corbould (British, London 1815?1905 London)Artist: After George Du Maurier (British, Paris 1834?1896 London)Artist: After Fritz Eltze (British, died 1870)Artist: After A. Fairfield (British, active late 19th century)Artist: After Charles Green (British, 1840?1898 Hampstead)Artist: After Townley Green (British, 1836?1899)Artist: After Arthur Boyd Houghton (British, Madras, India 1836?1875 London)Artist: After Charles Samuel Keene (British, Hornsey, Middlesex 1823?1891 London)Artist: After Matthew James Lawless (Irish, Dublin 1837?1864 London)Artist: After John Lawson (British, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland 1858, active to 1909)Artist: After Thomas Robert Macquoid (British, 1820?1912)Artist: After Thomas Morten (British, Uxbridge 1836?1866 London)Artist: After George John Pinwell (British, London 1842?1875 London)Artist: After A. Riou (British (?), active late 19th century)Artist: After Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, Norwich 1829?1904 London)Artist: After Percival Skelton (British, active 1849?1887)Artist: After William Small (British, Edinburgh 1843?1931 Worcester)Artist: After Sir John Tenniel (British, London 1820?1914 London)Artist: After Frederick Walker (British, London 1840?1875 Perthshire, Scotland)Artist: After John Dawson Watson (British, Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1832?1892 Conwy, Wales)Artist: After James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London)Engraver:Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839?93)Engraver: Joseph Swain (British, Oxford 1820?1909 London).