Lot 1340 , 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) and The Book Of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... according to the use of the Church of England ... with 54 plates, red ruled throughout; contemp. gilt decorated and panelled black morocco, sometime rebacked and with marbled e/ps. added, ge., 8vo. Oxford: printed by the University Printers, 1703; bound with - The Whole Book of Psalms: collected into English Metre ... printed by T. Willmer, for the Company of Stationers, 1704
£120-180

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. Oxford: printed by the University Printers, 1703; bound with - The Whole Book of Psalms: collected into English Metre ... printed by T. Willmer, for the Company of Stationers, 1704

Sold for £100