In Fairyland Pictures from the Elf-world By Richard Doyle (Illustrated by)

In Fairyland Pictures from the Elf-world By Richard Doyle (Illustrated by)

HARDBACK as new, with jacket, minor fading to spine, minor shelf/edge wear.

Published by Michael Joseph, , 1979 ISBN: 0718118367 15col.illustartions. 64 pages 30 x 23 centimetres

Here are faithfully reproduced the delicate, haunting beauty of its colour plates and vignettes. As in the original edition, the pictures are complemented by William Allingham's text-poem, and to this is added the later text version entitled 'The Princess Nobody' by Andrew Lang. In addition Bryan Holme has contributed a foreword and Dr Patricia Thomson, an accepted authority on Victorian literature, has contributed the biographical notes.

Richard "Dickie" Doyle (18 September 1824 – 10 December 1883) was a British illustrator of the Victorian era. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century.

Born at 17 Cambridge Terrace, London, one of seven children of Irish cartoonist John Doyle (known as 'H.B'), a noted political caricaturist, Doyle had three brothers, James, Charles and Henry Edward Doyle, who were also artists. The young Doyle had no formal art training other than his father's studio, but from an early age displayed a gifted ability to depict scenes of the fantastic and grotesque. Throughout his life he was fascinated by fairy tales. He produced his first complete illustrated book, Home for the Holidays, when he was twelve; it was published posthumously in 1887.

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