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London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1875 2nd.. Large folio hardback. Approx 15 x 11 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt paneled boards, blind embossed on rear, decorative gilt lettering to front, gilt fairy decorations to spine. All page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Boards a little worn, spine professionally rebacked, with repairs between endpapers. Some minor darkening around edges of title page, some occasional handling marks to pages. Some minor darkening/minor foxing spots around edges of plates, and a couple with some minor foxing to print. Else plates beautifully bright and clear. Stunning illustrations. 31 pp. Illustrated with 16 beautiful colour chromo plates by R. Doyle (engraved and printed by Edmund Evans), each plate is accompanied with text. Virtually identical to the first edition in size and content. Evans "earned the accolade of producing one of the largest colour printed books of the period - a landmark in the art of colour printing from wood… Read More

Very good copy of the first edition of Richard Doyle's fantasy masterpiece.

Complete with16 colour woodblock plates printed by Edmund Evans, each with one to four designs, for a total of 36 charming illustrations. Fairies and elves with dragonfly wings flirt and tease, ride snails, fly in the air on butterfly-drawn leaf carriages, sleep under mushrooms, and joust riding on beetles.

"Looking within himself, Doyle found a fantastic but consistently imagined world in which fairies and elves live in the open air among birds, butterflies, snails, and beetles as large as themselves." (Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914)

Richard "Dickie" Doyle, 1824-1883, was an English artist and illustrator, son of Irish caricaturist John Doyle and uncle of the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His began his career at Punch magazine, drawing the cover of the first issue and the masthead. After his success with the Brothers Grimm'sThe Fairy Ring in 1846, Doyle began to specialize in fantasy… Read More