IN FAIRYLAND, A SERIES OF PICTURES FROM THE ELF-WORLD

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1875. Sixteen full page color plates. All edges gilt. This is a so-called "perfect binding", glued rather than sewn. Some pages loosened from the old glue as is common. Some cracking at the joint at page 11, with exposure of the old glue and old repair. 1" tear at bottom of frontispiece, no loss of paper. Corners are worn. Front cover and spine gilt remain bright. Thirty-one numbered pages. Poem by William Allingham. Printed only on the recto of each page. Images are vivid and quite beautiful. See photos. Edmund Evans was the printer. First edition was published five years earlier in 1870. Richard "Dickie" Doyle (1824-1883) was a British illustrator, from a family of illustrators. His father James was a noted political caricaturist. His brothers, James, Charles, and Henry were also artists. Charles was the father of Arthur Conan Doyle. Richard was a frequent contributor to Punch Magazine, had a life-long fascination with fairies. See Engen, pp.155-59 and "Richard Doyle and His Family", an exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, pp.48-50. . Second Edition. Green Cloth. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Folio. (Inventory #: 015826)