Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, with a Poem, by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870, 16 colour plates by Richard Doyle engraved on wood and printed in colours by Edmund Evans some minor spotting and finger marks, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated green cloth, slightly rubbed, discreet strengthening of spine ends and inner hinges repaired, folio McLean, Victorian Book Design, page 184; Osborne, Volume 2, page 619: ‘... a folio which is also Richard Doyle's masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made'.
Doyle (Richard). In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World, with a Poem, by William Allingham, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870, 16 colour plates by Richard Doyle engraved on wood and printed in colours by Edmund Evans some minor spotting and finger marks, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated green cloth, slightly rubbed, discreet strengthening of spine ends and inner hinges repaired, folio McLean, Victorian Book Design, page 184; Osborne, Volume 2, page 619: ‘... a folio which is also Richard Doyle's masterpiece: it contains some of the most entrancing children's book illustrations ever made'.
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