Author: Allingham, William (Illustrated by Richard Doyle)
Title: IN FAIRYLAND a series of pictures from the ELF-world by Richard Doyle with a Poem by William Allingham
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1875 Brilliant colour-printed Frontispiece + 15 plates by Richard Doyle engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. . Folio (28x38cm) green gilt pictorial cloth (repaired and most of front cover and spine relaid, front cover damp-marked) Edges Gilt, [4]+31 leaves. Most neatly cut and pasted on larger gilt-edged leaves, except for 9 full-page leaves. All printed one side only and most with light marks of former damp. *Second and enhanced edition of this beautifully printed book, which Ruari McLean calls an "outstanding example of Evans's colour printing" and "also Richard Doyle's masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made" (Victorian Book Design 2nd edn. 1972 p184). This copy may have been used by McLean - a cryptic MS note laid in says "V B D 2nd edition, 3 pp. of In Fairyland borrowed by R McL from Aunty Fanny 5.10.70".

Keywords: Childrens fairy tales


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