Richard Doyle - The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones, & Robinson

Description: Undated Copy of Richard Doyle's 'The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown, Jones and Robinson - being the history of what they saw and did in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy'. A previous owner has written 'First Edition' on first page in pencil and it carries the signature of a previous owner to the inside front cover. All pages present and appear tight to binding, p30 has torn off bottom corner, but the torn piece is in the book so could be repaired. A handful or so of pages have tears, but are intact. One page is missing bottom corner, but this does not affect the cartoons or writing. Blue cloth cover with gilt edged pages, spine very faded and has been written over. Some minor spotting. See photos. Known, variously, by the nickname 'Dicky' and the pseudonym 'Dick Kitcat', Richard Doyle was one of the most popular illustrators of his time. A natural heir to George Cruikshank, Doyle was a humourist whose work ranged from social satire to representations of fairies and the 'little people'. Characterized by lyricism and lightness of touch, he worked for Punch during the formative years of the 1840s; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century; and later became a sensitive interpreter of Thackeray. His 'elfin' (Muir, 102) masterpiece is In Fairyland (1869-70), a colour-book ostensibly designed for children which also appealed to adults and addressed adult themes in a coded form. Luxuriously produced, with intricate engravings on wood by Edmund Evans, this work set new standards in the field of book-production. Other works, this time for adults, included The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854) in which he ridiculed the current vogue for tourism by showing a group of Englishmen bumbling their way around Europe, and Thackeray's pastiche of Ivanhoe, Rebecca and Rowena (1850). Dicky Doyle's work is a charming combination of comic burlesque, delicate drawing, a magical representation of the fairy world, mythology, satire, and intelligent interpretation. Widely collected, it visualizes mid-Victorian culture at its most wistful and amusing. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Price low given condition and my uncertainty as to edition (as undated)

Price: 49.99 GBP

Location: Brampton

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