Allingham william illus (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 161. White vellum under light green paper boards, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from Helen Allingham, the widow of William Allingham, on the half title page, 'Rallo and Reve with love and best wishes from Helen Allingham, May 1923'. Very slight soiling and very slight spotting to endpapers, otherwise a clean, very good copy. Signedes.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Folio. Original forest green cloth, gilt titling and emblems to front cover and spine, boards slightly rubbed with rounded and worn corners, splitting to edges of the spine. Complete with 16 colour woodblock plates engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, each with one to four designs, making a total of 36 illustrations of fairies and elves with dragonfly wings flitting amongst woodland animals and insects; endpapers well foxed including to verso of the frontispiece, with scattered spots of foxing mainly marginal, plus the odd spot of soiling to text pages. Dickie Doyle (1824-1883) was an English artist and illustrator, uncle of the writer Arthur Conan Doyle. He started his career at Punch magazine, where he drew the cover of the first issue and designed the masthead. After his success with the Grimm Brothers's The Fairy Ring in 1846, Doyle turned to fantasy illustration,with The Enchanted Doll (1849), The Story of Jack and the Giants (1850), The King of the Golden River (also 1850), An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew (1865), and his masterpiece In Fairy-Land The folio was richly bound in green cloth with decorative gilt title on front board by Edmonds and Remnants, London, and has been described as one of the finest examples of Victorian book production web. Book.…