THE ENCHANTED DOLL. A fairy tale for little people
by LEMON. MARK.; DOYLE. RICHARD. Illustrates
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Bradbury and Evans. London.,1850. Early edition. Originally published for Christmas 1849. Full page frontis and decorative title page plus 21 smaller illustrations throughout the text by Doyle. The frontis and decorative title page are both foxed, otherwise generally a clean copy. Finely bound in early twentieth century half green morocco,spine with five raised bands. Compartments decorated, lettered and ruled in gilt. Green paper on boards. Blue endpapers. Bound by Chatelis,with their gilt stamp on top of front inner board. Previous owners book plate on front paste-down. Top edge gilt. A nicely bound early edition. The work, about a poor doll maker whose workshop is invaded by kind fairies, was originally written by Lemon to entertain Charles Dicken's children and is dedicated to Mary and Kate Dickens. It was published for the 1849 Christmas market and was compared by many reviewers with Dickens Christmas books. The Ladies Companion beleived that these illustrations secured Doyle's importance as an illustrator for children. Overall a very good copy of this pretty little book.:
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- Paul Foster Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3637
- Title
- THE ENCHANTED DOLL. A fairy tale for little people
- Author
- LEMON. MARK.; DOYLE. RICHARD. Illustrates
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans. London.,1850
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine bindings; Children's and Illustrated books;
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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