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    By Richard Doyle
    London   Eyre and Spottiswoode
    10" by 8" 48 pp.
    A charming colour-illustrated facsimile of Richard Doyle’s manuscript of this classic fairy tale, first created in 1842.
    By Richard Doyle

    [1888] Jack the Giant Killer

    London   Eyre and Spottiswoode
    10" by 8" 48 pp.
    A charming colour-illustrated facsimile of Richard Doyle’s manuscript of this classic fairy tale, first created in 1842.
    £120.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 994H4
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    In the publisher's original grey cloth binding. 

    Illustrated in colour throughout.

    A facsimile of Doyle's original manuscript, originally produced in 1842, when he was only eighteen.

    Richard Doyle's beautiful rendition of 'Jack the Giant Killer'. Doyle worked for Punch, designing the magazine's masthead for the first issue, a design which was used for over a century.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The odd handling mark to boards. Blue paint mark to perimeter of front board. Slight discolouration to extremities and spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards. Rear free endpaper torn with significant loss. Hinges cracked but generally firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd handling mark and spot to fore edge.

    Good

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