In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-world. With a Poem by William Allingham and The Princess Nobody, A Tale of Fairyland by Andrew Lang. With an introduction by Bryan Holme. Biographical Notes by Dr. Patricia Thomson. London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Folio. A fine copy in publisher’s slipcase. dust jacket.

A facsimile edition, first published in 1870.

In Fairyland, for which William Allingham wrote the accompanying poem ‘A Forest in Fairyland’ is a masterpiece of imagination and colour printing. Richard Doyle was one of the most inventive of fairy illustrators, as his sketchbooks and watercolours show. The craze for spiritualism and table turning had its effect on artists, as is evident in Richard’s brother Charles Doyle’s (the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes).

One of the most coveted examples of Victorian colour printing.