With 81 color-printed woodcuts illustrating the text, all executed by Edmund Evans after original drawings by James Doyle. [2],
1864 · London
by Doyle, James
London: Longman, Green et al., 1864. First edtion. With 81 color-printed woodcuts illustrating the text, all executed by Edmund Evans after original drawings by James Doyle. [2], viii, 462 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to., (10-1/2 x 8 inches). Bound in three quarter English red straight-grained morocco and cloth, t.e.g. Joints slightly rubbed, spine darkened, top edge of rear cover sunned; internally fine. Evans, Edmund. First edtion. With 81 color-printed woodcuts illustrating the text, all executed by Edmund Evans after original drawings by James Doyle. [2], viii, 462 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to., (10-1/2 x 8 inches). "Evan's colour printing at its very best is seen again in 'A Chronicle of England', written and published by James Doyle, elder brother of Richard, and published by Longman in 1864. It is a quarto of four hundred and seventy pages, entirely printed by Evans: the numerous small illustrations are set in the text and printed in up to ten colours, as bright as if they had just been painted. As well as being a gifted draughtsman, Doyle was a heraldic expert...and made full use of his knowledge. And no one throughout the nineteenth century could mix such bright and clear inks as Evans. These small illustrations rival anything that even Baxter ever did" (Ruari McLean, 'Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing', pp. 182-4, with reproduction). According to Martin Hardie, the above volume was the last volume printed by Evans on a hand-press, and "Mr. Evans told me that he considered this to be the most carefully executed book he had ever printed (English Coloured Books, p 270). Ray, England 241
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