Lot 2164 , Corbet, Sybil and Katharine. Animal Land Where There Are No People, second edition, oblong 4to, introduction by Andrew Lang, numerous illustrations by Katharine Corbet, original blue cloth, J.M. Dent & Co., 1897, togethe

° Corbet, Sybil and Katharine. Animal Land Where There Are No People, second edition, oblong 4to, introduction by Andrew Lang, numerous illustrations by Katharine Corbet, original blue cloth, J.M. Dent & Co., 1897, together with a small quantity of illustrated volumes, including Richard Doyle and William Allingham’s ‘In Fairyland, a Series of Pictures from the Elf-World’, 1870 (small quantity).
£60-90

Condition:
‘Animal Land’: Provenance: Ralph Tristram, ink ownership on f/free e/papers and also gift inscribed, text block cracked at p.17, marginal damp-staining between pp.30-42, extremities rubbed, lettering faded; ‘In Fairyland’, inner hinge cracked, 15 plates only [of 16], twelve plates torn or with loss, most heavily soiled. Doyle - spine badly worn, also bd. edges, plts with marginal and some with clear tears - no loss, 3rd plt. corner torn away - avoiding plt. itself; inner hinges cracked

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