Allingham William Richard Doyle Illus (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Folio. Original forest green cloth, gilt titling and emblems to front cover and spine, boards slightly rubbed with rounded and worn corners, splitting to edges of the spine. Complete with 16 colour woodblock plates engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, each with one to four designs, making a total of 36 illustrations of fairies and elves with dragonfly wings flitting amongst woodland animals and insects; endpapers well foxed including to verso of the frontispiece, with scattered spots of foxing mainly marginal, plus the odd spot of soiling to text pages. Dickie Doyle (1824-1883) was an English artist and illustrator, uncle of the writer Arthur Conan Doyle. He started his career at Punch magazine, where he drew the cover of the first issue and designed the masthead. After his success with the Grimm Brothers's The Fairy Ring in 1846, Doyle turned to fantasy illustration,with The Enchanted Doll (1849), The Story of Jack and the Giants (1850), The King of the Golden River (also 1850), An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew (1865), and his masterpiece In Fairy-Land The folio was richly bound in green cloth with decorative gilt title on front board by Edmonds and Remnants, London, and has been described as one of the finest examples of Victorian book production web. Book.…

First edition: folio; hardcover, with gilt spine decorations, gilt rules to the upper board, gilt upper board titles and decorations and blind-ruled lower board; 31pp., all edges gilt, with an engraved coloured frontispiece and many full-coloured engraved illustrations. Re-backed, retaining the original cloth, with new endpapers; softening to the spine extremities with some scraping; some bumps to the board edges and corners; mild foxing to the preliminaries and light offset to the illustrations. Very good to near fine in a new, gilt-titled slipcase. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Richard Doyle was the son of an Irish artist and the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. By nineteen years old he was a designer of such skill and originality that the famous first cover of Punch was chosen from his work. "In Fairyland" was first published in 1870, and the pictures are complemented by William Allingham's text-poem.…