[Doyle (James E., 1822-1892)] The Adventures of the Last Abencerrage, 13 original drawings cut from an illustrated manuscript, comprising title with scene outside a castle and knight in a doorway and 11 other scenes, all pen & ink, 7 with additional watercolour, some with portions of manuscript text in ink, framed and glazed, two double-sided, v.s., [mid-19th century] (4 frames)

⁂ The text is a translation of the tale by François René de Chateaubriand about Aben-Hamet, the last of a tribe of Moors that were exiled from their original home in Spain. The young members of the Doyle family were encouraged to produce these illustrated manuscripts, several of which have survived, mainly unfinished, in the present cut-up form. The text was first published in French in 1826 and translated into English the following year. James Doyle may have taken the text when it appeared in Bentley's Standard Novels series in 1835.