An exhibition catalogue with color plates. A fine copy.

From the foreword by Sir Roy Strong: "The present exhibition, which examines the career of Richard Doyle, one of the most brilliant of Victorian painters of the fairy world, the centenary of whose death in 1983 it commemorates, will also prove, I hope, to have its serious side. The Doyle family was, and is, one of the most distinguished British families of the 19th and 20th centuries and this exhibition demonstrates, to use the words of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's alter ego - that 'Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.""