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Auction archive: Lot number 497

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, 1870

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$254 - US$381
Price realised:
£480
ca. US$610
Auction archive: Lot number 497

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, 1870

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$254 - US$381
Price realised:
£480
ca. US$610
Beschreibung:

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans et al, 1870, 16 full-page colour illustrations, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans first two plates with small damp-stain to lower blank margin, text printed on rectos only, some spotting and marks throughout, hinge split between frontispiece and half-title (latter becoming loose), endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, covers marked and slightly bowed, edges rubbed (and a little frayed in places), folio (Qty: 1) Osborne, p.619. "... a folio which is also Richard Doyle's masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made" (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.184. A book notoriously difficult to find in good condition, due to the usual decay of its original gutta-percha binding.

Auction archive: Lot number 497
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland, A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans et al, 1870, 16 full-page colour illustrations, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans first two plates with small damp-stain to lower blank margin, text printed on rectos only, some spotting and marks throughout, hinge split between frontispiece and half-title (latter becoming loose), endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, covers marked and slightly bowed, edges rubbed (and a little frayed in places), folio (Qty: 1) Osborne, p.619. "... a folio which is also Richard Doyle's masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made" (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.184. A book notoriously difficult to find in good condition, due to the usual decay of its original gutta-percha binding.

Auction archive: Lot number 497
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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