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DOYLE, James E.
A Chronicle of England B.C. 55–A.D. 1485.
The designs engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Publisher: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864
Stock code: 39216
Price: £750 Currency Conversion
First edition of one of the earliest and finest examples of Victorian colour printing. The illustrator and antiquary James Doyle was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Large quarto. Contemporary deluxe binding by Riviere of green straight-grained morocco, covers with double floral borders in gilt, English royal motifs (a crowned rose) in gilt at inner corners, spine with double raised bands, red morocco onlays in between with gilt floral rolls, large lozenges gilt in compartments, titled in gilt in second compartment, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Title printed in red and black, 81 illustrations in the text printed in colour. Book labels of Jeremiah H. Lant and Sir Percy Sanderson, British Consul General for the States of New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut, 1894–1907. A few small areas of rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy.
