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DOYLE, Richard.
In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
With a Poem by William Allingham.
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer. 1870
Stock code: 64932
Price: £3,750 Currency Conversion
First edition of one of the masterpieces of Victorian colour printing. As Percy Muir describes it in his Victorian Illustrated Books (1971), In Fairyland "has 16 colour plates many with more than one subject to a page, and there is not one bad one among them ... Edmund Evans surpassed himself in the printing of the blocks ... it is now considered as a book for children, but it was published at a guinea and a half."
Folio. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles to spine, twin rule to boards, pictorial title block to front board, single rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a green slipcase. 16 colour plates, painted by Doyle, engraved by Edmund Evans. Contemporary gift inscription to half-title, some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
