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Richard Doyle was born in London, one of seven children of Irish cartoonist John Doyle.
(This beautifully presented book contains for the first t...)
This beautifully presented book contains for the first time the complete series of fifty-three illustrated letters written to his father by Richard Doyle, the precocious boy who would become famous for his Punch drawings Their reproduction here in all their elusive detail, scrupulously annotated by the editor, is both pleasurable and educative. Times Literary Supplement Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist. In a series of vivid manuscript canvases, Doyle observes Victorian customs and society. He visits operas, plays, and parades. He watches the queen visiting the House of Commons and witnesses the state funeral of the Duke of Sussex. He is caught up in the Chartist riots of August 1842 and is robbed during one of the melees. And he provides countless illustrations of ordinary people strolling in the streets and swarming the parks and picture galleries of the metropolis. The sketches offer a fresh perspective on major social and cultural events of London during the early 1840s by a keen observer not yet twenty years old. Doyles epistles anticipate the modern comic strip and the graphic novel, especially in their experimentation with sequential narrative and their ingenious use of space. The letters are accompanied by a full biographical and critical introduction with new material about Doyles life.
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( Winged sprites, impish elves, and other magical creatur...)
Winged sprites, impish elves, and other magical creatures enliven these charming placekeepers. Story lines from A Tale of Fairyland appear on the back of each marker.
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Charming illustrations enhance the narrative of a much-loved classic that tells the story of Prince Comical and his search for the diminutive princess without a name. Elves, fairies, dwarfs and other denizens of fairyland will prove irresistible to anyone enchanted by the fantasy world of sprites and other little people.
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(The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ing...)
The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. It has remained one of the most beloved versions of this timeless tale.In this new Everyman's edition, Doyle's vivid, wonderfully engaging illustrations have been enlarged and the text has been given greater legibility. It is a book that will satisfy both the child's delight in scariness, wonder, and magic, and the collector's pleasure in classic Victorian illustration.
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( Poetry to delight anyone who still believes in magic. ...)
Poetry to delight anyone who still believes in magic. "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." --J. M. Barrie, Scottish, 1860-1937, from Peter Pan The art of Englishman Richard Doyle offers lush glimpses into the world of the wee folk. Doyle's fairies troop through meadows, twirl in the moonlight, and enlist birds and bugs in games and mischief. His whimsical illustrations, chosen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, are paired with poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stevie Smith, and Langston Hughes, among others. Fairy sweethearts among the roses illustrate Wilder's "The Fairies in the Sunshine," elf babies in a snail race match Robert Graves's "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child," and a fairy queen carried by butterflies reimagines Shakespeare's popular "Queen Mab" soliloquy. A magical treasury that will enchant readers of all ages.
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Richard Doyle was born in London, one of seven children of Irish cartoonist John Doyle.
The young Doyle had no formal art training other than his father's studio.
Richard was an extremely precocious artist, and in his "Home for the Holidays, " done when he was twelve, and his "Comic English Histories, " drawn four years later, he showed extraordinary gifts of humour and fancy. In 1843 he joined the staff of Punch, drawing cartoons and a vast number of illustrations, but he retired in 1850, in consequence of the attitude of that paper towards what was known as "the papal aggression, " and especially towards the pope himself.
In 1854 he published his "Continental Tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson. " His illustrations to three of the Christmas Books of Charles Dickens, and to The Newcomes by Thackeray, are reckoned among his principal achievements; and his fanciful pictures of elves and fairies have always been general favourites. His most popular drawing is his cover of Punch.
(This beautifully presented book contains for the first t...)
( Charming illustrations enhance the narrative of a much-...)
(The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ing...)
( Winged sprites, impish elves, and other magical creatur...)
( On the cover, a diminutive prince wooing a little princ...)
( Poetry to delight anyone who still believes in magic. ...)
(Book by Richard Doyle)