1877 Scarce Book - Our Trip to Blunderland Or, Grand Excursion to Blundertown and Back illustrated by Charles Doyle.

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(Description)

Author: Richard Doyle, illustrator. Jean Jambon (pseudonym for John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh).
Title: Our Trip to Blunderland; or Grand Excursion to Blundertown and Back. With 60 illustrations by Charles Doyle.
Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1877. Second Edition (stated) was printed the same year as the first edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ". 
Pages: 231 pages.
Binding: Attractive, near fine, original gilt decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.  
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean - as shown, inner hinges worn but still tight - as shown, rare light foxing or staining mainly on title page -  as shown, gift note of a previous 1876 owner on the second blank - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with all the 60 beautiful illustrations by Charles Doyle.

The book: Scarce work by Lord Kingsburgh which relates an imaginary travel in the Alice in Wonderland-style children's fantasy, published pseudonymously by J.H.A. Macdonald, then Solicitor-General of Scotland (he would become a Queen's Counsel in 1880 a Privy Counsellor in 1885). Illustrated by Charles Doyle, father of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In a wonderful original binding!

The illustrator: Charles Altamont Doyle (25 March 1832 – 10 October 1893) was an illustrator, watercolorist, and civil servant. A member of an artistic family, he is remembered today primarily for being the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.

The author: Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, KCB, PC, PRSSA, FRS, FRSE (27 December 1836 – 9 May 1919) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician and later a judge.