DORÉ, Gustave (illustrator). – [Rudolf Erich RASPE.] The Adventures

DORÉ, Gustave (illustrator). – [Rudolf Erich RASPE.] The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [circa 1870.] Third edition, 4to (267 x 204mm.) Introduction by T. Teignmouth Shore, plates, illustrations in the text. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt portrait to upper cover, g.e. (lightly rubbed extremities). Provenance: Reginald Metcalf (ink inscribed to on half-title). – And a further twenty-two volumes, mostly illustrated (including Claud Lovat Fraser’s ‘Pirates’, [1915], 4to, and ‘Nursery Rhymes’, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, [1919], 4to, and Bram Stoker’s ‘The Lair of the White Worm’, second edition, [1925], 8vo, and Rosemary Hoyland’s ‘Ethelbert Under the Sea’, 1956, oblong 4to, and Herbert Strang’s ‘Lord of the Seas’, 1909, 8vo, and Francis Burnand’s ‘The Fox’s Frolic’, illustrated by Harry B. Neilson, [1935], oblong 4to, and ‘Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates’, 1921, 4to) (23).

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