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TENNYSON, Alfred, and Eleanor FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, illustrator.
The Idylls of the King … Illustrated in Colour by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].
Large 4to, pp. [xiv], 173, [1], with half-title, limitation leaf, frontispiece, and 20 further plates, each tipped in and printed in colour within printed borders, tissue guards with printed captions; endpapers browned; a very good copy in the original stiff vellum, front cover and spine decorated in gilt and blue with hearts, crowns and sword, the gilt sword also printed on the endpapers, rear hinge cracked, covers a little bowed and stained, ties wanting (as in all copies we have seen); printed advertisement for the simultaneous exhibition of Brickdale’s drawings laid in loose; front free endpaper inscribed ‘With cordial congratulations and best wishes from D MacKenzie Wallace, Dec. 1911'.
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The Idylls of the King … Illustrated in Colour by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Deluxe edition of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945), no. 124 of 250 copies signed by the artist.
‘Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale … travelled often to the continent and was clearly influenced by the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century art which she saw on visits to Italy. There were … exhibitions of her works at Leighton House in 1904, with a catalogue containing appreciative remarks by George Frederic Watts, and at Dowdeswell’s in 1905 and 1909. She continued her illustrative work, which from about 1905 consisted of both line drawings and watercolours made for reproduction as half-tone colour plates. In 1911 two editions of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (de luxe and popular) were published with illustrations from her watercolours while the originals were on show in another of her one-woman exhibitions, this time at the Leicester Galleries’ (ODNB) – for which a leaflet is found laid in here.