Richard Doyle
(1824 - 1883)
Richard “Dickie” Doyle came from a family of artists that included his father John Doyle and two brothers James and Charles. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Like Andrew Wyeth, he learned to draw from his father and completed his first book illustrations at the age of twelve.
He illustrated works by Dickens and Thackeray and specialized in fairy tales, including The King of the Golden River and his masterpiece In Fairyland by William Allingham.
The illustrations were later the subject of a book by Andrew Lang entitled The Princess Nobody.
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The Enchanted Doll (1849)
A wooden doll maker is punished for his laziness and envy of his neighbor, a silversmith. This story was written for the entertainment of Charles Dickens’ children. The image above is from a later edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Fairy Ring (1846)
Newly-translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Fairy Ring (1847)
Newly translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is the expanded second edition.
Fairy Tales (1868)
Includes The Enchanted Doll and The Chronicles of the Three Sisters. Read online at archive.org.
Richard Doyle
Fairy Tales from All Nations (1849)
A newly translated collection of twenty-eight fairy tales “carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations.”
The third and fourth editions of 1890 and 1893 contain up to twelve additional illustrations taken from A Juvenile Calendar and Zodiac of Flowers.
The Feast of the Dwarfs (1871)
This is a reprint of eight tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. The frontispiece is in color in this edition. The cover has a paste-on color version of the illustration shown above. Read online at archive.org.
The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854)
A comic look at three Englishmen on the continent, in pictures with gently humorous captions. Read online at archive.org.
Fortune’s Favorite and other Famous Fairy Tales (1871)
Six fairy tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
The Fortunes of Hector O’Halloran and His Man Mark Anthony O’Toole (1842)
A novel of the Irish revolt against the English at the turn of the nineteenth century. The first two of the thirteen monthly parts were illustrated by Dick Kitcat (Richard Doyle); the rest by John Leech. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
John Leech
God’s Englishmen (1948)
A collection of drawings of Englishmen and women going about their daily business with some humorous commentary.
Higgledy-Piggledy (1876)
Six fairy stories by a British MP. Read online at archive.org.
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 (2016)
As part of his education, his father required Richard Doyle to write a weekly letter about his experiences in London.
In Fairyland (1979)
Dicky Doyle drew the pictures and William Allingham wrote a poem, A Forest in Fairyland. Then Andrew Lang wrote a tale, The Princess Nobody to go with the pictures. Read online at the University of Florida.
Andrew Lang
In Fairyland: Pictures from the Elf-World (1870)
Richard Doyle drew the pictures, then William Allingham wrote the poem, A Forest in Fairyland to go with them. Read online at the University of Florida.
Jack the Giant Killer (1888)
One of his juvenilia, drawn in 1842, this was published after the artist’s death. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
A Jar of Honey From Mount Hybla (1848)
A book on the pastoral poetry of Sicily. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Owen Jones
The King of the Golden River (1851)
The Southwest Wind, Esq. pays a visit to Hans, Schwartz and Gluck and things are never the same. Third and later editions have a modified frontispiece wherein the goblin has a conventional nose instead of a “hooter.” Read online at Internet Archive.
The King of the Golden River (1860)
Gluck and his two evil older brothers lived in the Treasure Valley until the South West Wind turned it into a desert. How it was changed back again is the burden of the story. In this edition the King has a regular nose instead of the “hooter.” Read online at archive.org.
The King of the Golden River (1974)
Gluck manages to succeed where his two selfish older brothers fail, in achieving the treasure of the Valley. Read online at archive.org.
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso (1848)
Two poems by Milton with numerous illustrations. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
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