RICHARD DOYLE: His Life and Work by Daria Hambourg New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [circa 1950].
A volume in the English Masters of Black and White series. A career biography with chronological list of Doyle's works is followed by a bounty of the caricaturist, satirist, illustrator, cartoonist, and fairy tale artist's works. Comprises frontispiece and illustrated title page, continued with thirty-three pages of text, and then sixty-one coated-stock pages of captioned or source-identified illustrations. Offset age-toning to front and rear end-papers as usual, else near fine in greenish-beige linen with gilt embossed titles and rules to the spine; in a very good plus dust jacket with a tiny chip from the faded and slightly age-toned spine panel, slight dust-soiling to the front and rear panels, a tear and tiny nicks to the upper spine end and upper front flap fold; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. Square octavo; 96 pages.
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