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Private Press, Books & Art
3:00 AM PT - Nov 7th, 2008

 

offered by
Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
Uk Auction

 

       

Lot 429A save

Doyle (R).- The King of the Golden River

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[Ruskin (John)] The King of the Golden River,
sixth edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 23 illustrations after Richard Doyle, Smith Elder and Co., [1863]; Another copy, twenty-fourth thousand, with the same illustrations, George Allen, 1901, original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo

***The extra illustration in the later editions is a head-piece which appeared on the upper cover of the first edition as a vignette. The small figure on the upper cover still has his "hooter" nose replaced in the frontispiece..


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