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LANG, Andrew (1844-1912) & Richard DOYLE (1824-1883, illustrator). The Princess Nobody of Fairy Land, London: Longmans, Green and Co., [1884]. 4° (235 x 176mm). Illustrations by Richard Doyle, 25 coloured. (Hinges a little weak, occasional light spots and thumbmarks.) Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (wear to corners, edges rubbed). Osborne I, 365: "At the suggestion of his friend and publisher, Charles Longman, Lang wrote this story to fit Richard Doyle's pictures. These had appeared in 1869 as the illustrations for William Allingham's In Fairyland" (see lot 41).
With 2 copies of Richard Doyle's Jack and the Giant-Killer (London, [1888]) and 3 copies of A Journal kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840 (London, 1885, one a second edition of 1886). (6)
With 2 copies of Richard Doyle's Jack and the Giant-Killer (London, [1888]) and 3 copies of A Journal kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840 (London, 1885, one a second edition of 1886). (6)
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