A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World de Doyle, Richard (with a Poem By William Allingham) - 1870

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870. Cover: green cloth on boards with gilt titles and gilt decorative images; double gilt trim to margins; gilt decorative design to spine. Cover with light marks and staining. Mild rubbed wear to extremeties. Wear to fore corners. Edges: gilt, some wear and scratches; when edges are fanned there is moderate soiling. On half-title page is an 1874 inscription in the olde style script. All colour & b/w illustrations intact. Most pages have the age discolouring albeit this is mostly to the margins and to the blankside of the illustrated page. Binding is VG+ 31p Large, thin book: 385 x 280mm. First Edition. Hb. VG/None.