Lot 477
Boyle (Eleanor Vere) Child's Play, second edition, hand-coloured plates, 1853.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
B[oyle] (E[leanor] V[ere]) Child's Play, Seventeen Drawings, second edition, hand-coloured additional pictorial title and 16 hand-coloured plates by E.V.B. incorporating nursery rhyme texts, a little spotted and soiled, mostly to margins or plate guards, bookplate of L.G.E.Bell, modern half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., 4to, Addey and Co., 1853.
⁂ The artist's first book, first published the previous year . Subsequent editions omit the plate for "I had a little Castle" and were printed in colour. Hand-coloured copies of the first two editions are rare.
Description
B[oyle] (E[leanor] V[ere]) Child's Play, Seventeen Drawings, second edition, hand-coloured additional pictorial title and 16 hand-coloured plates by E.V.B. incorporating nursery rhyme texts, a little spotted and soiled, mostly to margins or plate guards, bookplate of L.G.E.Bell, modern half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., 4to, Addey and Co., 1853.
⁂ The artist's first book, first published the previous year . Subsequent editions omit the plate for "I had a little Castle" and were printed in colour. Hand-coloured copies of the first two editions are rare.
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