English Fairy Tales -
Flora Annie Steel, Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
1918 - Macmillan &, London - Deluxe Signed Limited and First Rackham Illustrated Edition
Fine deluxe signed edition, numbered 291 of 500 copies, in publisher’s stunning deluxe vellum and gilt binding.
Magically illustrated by Arthur Rackham with sixteen tipped on colour plates, and forty-two black and white illustrations and decorations throughout.
With forty one fairy tales including – ‘St. George of Merrie England’, ‘The Story of the Three Bears’, ‘Jack the Giant-Killer’, ‘The Golden Ball’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘Mr. Fox’, ‘The Old Woman and her Pig’, ‘Little Red Riding-Hood’, ‘The Babes in the Wood’, ‘The Ass, the Table, and the Stick’, and ‘The Rose Tree’. Provenance: Engraved bookplate with the initials F M to front pastedown.
Reference: Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 132.
Large quarto (binding size 29.4x24cm), pp. [2] ix [1] 341 [3]. In the publisher s deluxe vellum binding, spine and upper board with gilt lettering and vignettes, white endpapers illustrated with children and butterflies, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Condition: Fine in fine binding with only a modicum of the usual soiling. Ref: 112218 Price: HK$ 28,000
Magically illustrated by Arthur Rackham with sixteen tipped on colour plates, and forty-two black and white illustrations and decorations throughout.
With forty one fairy tales including – ‘St. George of Merrie England’, ‘The Story of the Three Bears’, ‘Jack the Giant-Killer’, ‘The Golden Ball’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘Mr. Fox’, ‘The Old Woman and her Pig’, ‘Little Red Riding-Hood’, ‘The Babes in the Wood’, ‘The Ass, the Table, and the Stick’, and ‘The Rose Tree’. Provenance: Engraved bookplate with the initials F M to front pastedown.
Reference: Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 132.
Large quarto (binding size 29.4x24cm), pp. [2] ix [1] 341 [3]. In the publisher s deluxe vellum binding, spine and upper board with gilt lettering and vignettes, white endpapers illustrated with children and butterflies, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Condition: Fine in fine binding with only a modicum of the usual soiling. Ref: 112218 Price: HK$ 28,000