Cinderella - together with - The Sleeping Beauty -
C. S. Evans, Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
1919 - William Heinemann, London - First Rackham Illustrated Editions
Once upon a time...
A uniform large pair of Arthur Rackham’s only magical silhouette illustrated titles. In superior condition, with the original decorated paper boards and dust jackets.
The decorations and silhouette illustrations are in both black and white and in colour, adding a simple yet mystical air to these two classical fairy tales. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), English illustrator and water-colourist. One of the foremost and most productive of the Edwardian illustrators, with a preference for books of a mystical, magic or legendary background. Aided by advances in colour printing at the beginning of the 20th century, his imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening, whilst adding a delightfully humorous flourish to many of his illustrations, although he can descend into darker depths as seen for Wagner and Edgar Allan Poe.
Provenance: Cinderella with a faded contemporary gift inscription dated Christmas 1919 to the front free endpaper.
References: Houfe, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 424. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Cinderella - Tipped-in colour frontispiece, three double-page silhouettes with colour, many single page and in-text silhouette drawings.
Sleeping Beauty - One tipped-in colour plate, three double-page silhouettes with colour, many single page and in-text silhouette drawings.
Two large octavo volumes (book size 26x19.3cm), pp. 110 [2]; 110 [2]. Pagination includes plates as published. In publisher’s cloth spines (red for Sleeping Beauty and pumpkin for Cinderella) lettered and patterned in black, paper boards illustrated and lettered in black and white with highlights in pumpkin for Cinderella and pink for Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella with green endpapers showing white silhouettes of the characters, Sleeping Beauty with blank endpapers (also found with green illustrated endpapers). Dust jackets lettered in black with silhouette illustrations to upper covers, priced ‘7/6 net to spines - dark pink for Sleeping Beauty with blank rear panel (also produced in a variant beige colour with book list to rear), and light brown for Cinderella with book list to rear. Condition: Near fine, light spotting to foredge and boards, slightly heavier to Cinderella, in very good to near fine dust jackets, toning to spines, minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. more so to Cinderella which provided with a matching sheet of paper behind for cosmetic purposes. Ref: 112135 Price: HK$ 12,000
A uniform large pair of Arthur Rackham’s only magical silhouette illustrated titles. In superior condition, with the original decorated paper boards and dust jackets.
The decorations and silhouette illustrations are in both black and white and in colour, adding a simple yet mystical air to these two classical fairy tales. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), English illustrator and water-colourist. One of the foremost and most productive of the Edwardian illustrators, with a preference for books of a mystical, magic or legendary background. Aided by advances in colour printing at the beginning of the 20th century, his imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening, whilst adding a delightfully humorous flourish to many of his illustrations, although he can descend into darker depths as seen for Wagner and Edgar Allan Poe.
Provenance: Cinderella with a faded contemporary gift inscription dated Christmas 1919 to the front free endpaper.
References: Houfe, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 424. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Cinderella - Tipped-in colour frontispiece, three double-page silhouettes with colour, many single page and in-text silhouette drawings.
Sleeping Beauty - One tipped-in colour plate, three double-page silhouettes with colour, many single page and in-text silhouette drawings.
Two large octavo volumes (book size 26x19.3cm), pp. 110 [2]; 110 [2]. Pagination includes plates as published. In publisher’s cloth spines (red for Sleeping Beauty and pumpkin for Cinderella) lettered and patterned in black, paper boards illustrated and lettered in black and white with highlights in pumpkin for Cinderella and pink for Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella with green endpapers showing white silhouettes of the characters, Sleeping Beauty with blank endpapers (also found with green illustrated endpapers). Dust jackets lettered in black with silhouette illustrations to upper covers, priced ‘7/6 net to spines - dark pink for Sleeping Beauty with blank rear panel (also produced in a variant beige colour with book list to rear), and light brown for Cinderella with book list to rear. Condition: Near fine, light spotting to foredge and boards, slightly heavier to Cinderella, in very good to near fine dust jackets, toning to spines, minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. more so to Cinderella which provided with a matching sheet of paper behind for cosmetic purposes. Ref: 112135 Price: HK$ 12,000