The Doyle fairy book. : Consisting of twenty-eight fairy tales, / translated from various languages, by Anthony R. Montalba. With 30 illustrations by Richard Doyle, a memoir of Doyle, and an introduction.
Richard Doyle (1824-1883)
Category
Books
Date
1893
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248791
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fourth edition. 582, [2] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Illustrated border on half-title partially coloured in with purple pencil. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "5/6". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Fairhaven crest with motto 'Si je puis'. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's red cloth; gilt stamped illustration (prince riding on large bird) and black stamped illustration (lovers swimming across a river) on upper board; black stamped illustration (stork) on spine; gilt lettered spine; gilt textblock edges; black endpapers.
Makers and roles
Richard Doyle (1824-1883), illustrator Montalba, Anthony R, translator