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Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday www.peterharrington.co.uk ntroduced in 1905 with Rip Van Winkle, Rackham’s illustrated gift books were issued in two primary formats: the deluxe edition, typically a signed limited edition bound in vellum, printed on handmade paper, with the colour plates mounted, or tipped-in, on thick paper, with captioned tissue guards. These were published at the same time as the normal trade editions of the book, case-bound in cloth, with the plates printed on ordinary plate paper. Occasionally the publisher issued improved versions of the trade editions with special leather bindings. It was George Harrap who hit on the idea of a “Rackham special”, the most exclusive format of Rackham’s books. From The Vicar of Wakefield on, Harrap held back the first dozen or so copies from the deluxe edition, had them bound in fine morocco (goatskin) by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorated in gilt with tools designed by Rackham, and asked Rackham to add a unique original watercolour sketch to the limitation page. This collection includes every title treated by Rackham in this fashion. Rackham had been long-established as a commercial book illustrator before he came to dominate the Edwardian deluxe gift book market. This catalogue is arranged in two sections; the first contains works wholly by Rackham issued in deluxe limited editions; the second contains a wide selection of his commercial work in books, magazines, and periodicals, together with some posthumous catalogues and related ephemera. Within each section, the items are arranged by date following the publication order given by Riall.

Bibliographies cited Latimore, Sarah Briggs, & Grace Clark Haskell. Arthur Rackham, a Bibliography. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1936

Riall, Richard. A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham. Bath: Ross Press, 1994 works wholly by rackham issued in deluxe lim ited editions 126

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1 IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. With drawings deluxe edition, number 137 of 250 copies signed by the artist. by Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S. London: William Heinemann, This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be is- 1905 sued in a limited edition format and it immediately established him as the leading illustrator of lavishly produced gift books in Quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pictorial the Edwardian era. In March 1905 Rackham’s originals were ex- image blocked in gilt to front cover, brown endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cream ribbon ties renewed. Housed in a plain hibited at the Leicester Galleries, which led to this deluxe edi- green cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted tion being fully subscribed before the exhibition had closed. on brown paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illus- The exhibition also attracted the admiration of J. M. Barrie, who trations in the text, all by Rackham. Armorial bookplate of James F. would commission Rackham’s next book. N. Lawrence, Pilgrims Hall, Brentwood. Laid in are two letters from Latimore & Haskell, p. 26; Riall, p. 69. Rackham collector Thomas H. Pohirt on obtaining this copy in 1974. Occasional spotting to pages, more noticeably to endpapers, vellum £6,500 [112975] toned, corners bumped, a very good copy.

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2 3 IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle . . . London: William IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. New York: Heinemann, 1905 Doubleday, Page & Co; William Heinemann, London, 1916 Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pic- Tall octavo. Original pale green cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt title and torial image blocked in gilt to front cover, publisher’s device to rear pictorial block of Rip Van Winkle on front cover, pictorial endpapers. cover in blind, dark green endpapers, green edges trimmed straight. Without the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 23 coloured plates Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on green paper with with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by by Rackham. Spine sunned, small red ink mark on back cover, slight Rackham. Spine lightly toned, occasional spotting to pages, corners bump at foot of spine and front cover. A very good copy. lightly rubbed. An excellent copy. This American edition is thoroughly rearranged from the 1905 first trade edition, first impression, from the same setting edition, with many new drawings added and over half of the of type as the deluxe edition. original colour plates omitted. There was also a London edition Latimore & Haskell, p. 26; Riall, p. 69. in the same format, which was reprinted in 1917 and 1919. £750 [112930] Latimore & Haskell, p. 45; Riall p. 127. £150 [112929]

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4 BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (From with Rackham as illustrator. The text was extracted, with mi- “The Little White Bird”) With drawings by Arthur nor revisions, from Barrie’s book-within-a-book in his London Rackham, A.R.W.S. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 story-collection for adults, The Little White Bird (1902), and it was published specifically as a children’s gift book. (The play re- Quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, design blocked in gilt to front cover, map endpapers, top edge gilt, others mained unpublished until 1928.) untrimmed, yellow ribbon ties renewed. Housed in a plain red cloth Latimore & Haskell p. 27; Riall p. 74. slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the £7,500 [112977] text, all by Rackham. Bookplate of Archibald Younger. Vellum slightly darkened, rubbed, occasional spotting, an excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 157 of 500 copies signed by the artist. After the enormous success of the play Peter Pan, which opened on 27 December 1904 and broke all previous theatrical records, Barrie sanctioned this publication, in collaboration

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5 6 BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens . . . BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens . . . London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907 Quarto. Original russet cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front Quarto. Original suede, titles to spine and front cover gilt, design cover gilt, dark grey endpapers with map to front free endpaper. In the blocked in blind to front cover, illustrated map endpapers, top edge printed dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted gilt. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on brown paper on brown paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illus- with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, trations in the text, all by Rackham. Bookplate of Constance Cathe- all by Rackham. Contemporary note and Christmas gift letter mounted rine Wire. Joints rubbed, extremities gently bumped, in the toned dust to front pastedown; stationers’ ticket of Roffey and Clark, High Street, jacket with large chip to tail of spine with partial loss of imprint, and Croydon, at foot of rear pastedown. Light rubbing and spotting to chips to head of spine, rear fold and upper outer corner of front panel, suede covers, a little internal spotting more noticeable to untrimmed the jacket lined in Japanese tissue inside the spine and at corners. An edges, an excellent copy. excellent copy. first trade edition, fourth impression, in a publish- first trade edition, first impression, a rare survival in the er’s deluxe binding not noted by Latimore & Haskell or dust jacket, as here. The spine shows the original publication Riall, though it appears to be the binding described as “rough price of 15s. net. Persian” advertised by Hodder & Stoughton in the press in time Riall p. 74. for Christmas 1907. £6,500 [112964] £2,000 [112932]

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7 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. was travelling when this book was published, and so it was is- Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a proem [sic] by sued as a limited edition but not signed. However, this copy has Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page been signed by Rackham and has an original pen and water- & Co., New York, [1907] colour sketch of Alice and the Dormouse, signed and dated 10 April 1931, on the half-page below the limitation notice, in the Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, de- manner of one of his “specials” (see item 79 below). sign blocked in gilt to front cover, publisher’s device in blind to rear cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom green Latimore & Haskell p. 29; Riall p. 77. morocco-backed folding case. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates £30,000 [112897] mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine and edges with some light soiling, browning and offsetting to free endpapers; an excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 220 of 1,130 copies, of which 1,100 were for sale and the last 30 reserved for presentation. Rackham

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8 head of spine, light chipping along top edge of rear panel; an excellent copy. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . . . London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York, first trade edition, first impression, a rare survival in the dust jacket. [1907] Latimore & Haskell p. 29; Riall p. 77. Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, design blocked in gilt to front cover, publisher’s device in blind to rear £1,850 [113068] cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustra- 10 tions in the text, by Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers, a touch of soiling along spine edges. A bright, excellent copy. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . . . deluxe edition, number 167 of 1,130 copies. Published when London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York, the book came out of copyright in 1907, this deluxe edition was 1919 issued unsigned. For the first time, Rackham’s plates were dis- Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark tributed at the appropriate places throughout the text, rather green, pictorial decoration to front cover, illustrated endpapers. than gathered at the end as they had been in Rip Van Winkle and Housed in a green cloth folding box. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Joints lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 29; Riall p. 77. first trade edition, fourth impression. presentation £3,000 [113035] copy from Rackham to noted Dutch graphic designer Johan Briedé (1885–1980), with an original drawing in ink on the 9 half-title (a self-portrait of the artist addressing a bird), in- CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . . . scribed to Briedé, signed in full by Rackham and dated 22 London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York, September 1919; with Briedé’s bookplate on the facing blank [1907] and with his ownership inscription dated London 1919 on the half-title verso. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark Latimore & Haskell p. 29; Riall p. 77. green, pictorial decoration to front gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates with captioned £1,875 [113067] tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Light spotting to endpapers, a touch of fading to spine ends, in the lightly soiled dust jacket with shallow chips to corners and large chip at

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11 [BARHAM, Richard Harris.] The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels By Thomas Ingoldsby Esqre. Illustratated [sic] by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: J. M. Dent & Co; E. P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1907 Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, dark green pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, yellow silk ties renewed. Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. A little spotting to vellum, slight marginal toning to text leaves, a very good copy. deluxe edition, number 351 of 560 copies signed by the artist, one of 500 for sale in England. Rackham’s previous illustrated edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published in 1898, had no deluxe issue (see item 145 below). For this edition, it was revised and largely redrawn, so that “greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour” (Prefatory Note). Latimore & Haskell p. 30; Riall p. 83. £1,000 [112971]

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12 13 SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream With illustrations by Arthur Rackham, R.W.S. London: . . . London: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1908 York, 1908 Quarto. Original vellum covers, titles to spine and front cover gilt, im- Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, picto- age blocked in gilt to front cover, brown endpapers, original silk ties rial image blocked to front cover in gilt. With the printed dust jacket. detached and laid in. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates mounted Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates mounted on tan paper, black on heavy brown paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Bookplate of noted Rackham. Christmas 1917 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Mild English gardener Muriel Messel (1889–1918). Spine gently rolled, some soiling to vellum, an excellent copy. tape marks to endpapers, central gatherings with moderate creasing deluxe edition, number 324 of 1,000 copies signed by the to corners, in the dust jacket with chips to ends of spine and corners, splitting along spine edges, and faint stain to lower edges; overall, a artist for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. very good copy in the very uncommon dust jacket. Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 86. first trade edition, first impression. £2,250 [113187] Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 86. £1,250 [113071]

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14 15 LAMB, Charles & Mary. Tales from Shakespeare, LAMB, Charles & Mary. Tales from Shakespeare . . . illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton, New York, 1909 E. P. Dutton, New York, 1909 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, images Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pic- to spine and front cover blocked in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. torial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original dark red Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and white illustrations in ribbon ties. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on buff the text, of which 2 are full-page, all by Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers, paper inlaid in plain paper, black and white illustrations in the text, of occasional spotting to pages, spine gently rolled. An excellent copy. which 2 are full-page, all by Rackham. A fine copy. first trade edition, first impression. One of the three pri- deluxe edition, number 386 of 750 copies signed by the artist. mary bindings, the other two being light blue and purple. The deluxe edition contains an extra plate, “Puck”, not included Latimore & Haskell pp. 33–34; Riall p. 90. in the trade edition. Rackham had previously illustrated the work in 1899, but with the illustrations as uncoloured line-drawings and £175 [113075] no deluxe edition (item 152 below); the publisher’s prefatory Note states that the illustrations “have since been worked over, revised, 16 and coloured by the artist, while some entirely new designs have LAMB, Charles & Mary. Tales from Shakespeare . . . been added”. London: The Temple Press, 1909 Latimore & Haskell pp. 33–34; Riall p. 90. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, pic- £1,500 [113072] torial images blocked in gilt to front cover and spine. With the dust jacket with a colour plate mounted on the front panel. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, of which 2 are full-page, all by Rackham. Faint staining to front cover and

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17 18 lower edges, offsetting to the half-title, in the toned and price-clipped deluxe edition, number 43 of 750 copies signed by the artist dust jacket with moderate wear to extremities, rubbing to corners and for sale in England and America. This edition is uniform with spine, chips to corners, rip across spine. A very good copy. Tales from Shakespeare and also contains an extra colour plate first temple press edition, bound in the same pictorial not included in the trade edition, titled “The Lilliputian tailors cloth as the trade edition but without the publishers’ names in measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothes”. the lower panels, and with the same illustrations except for the Latimore & Haskell p. 33; Riall p. 91. pictorial endpapers, which are plain. Riall gives two possible illustrations reproduced on the front panel of the dust jacket; this £1,500 [113077] copy has a third, not noted by Riall: “When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel would come slily and pinch him”. 18 Riall p. 90. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels . . . London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1909 £300 [113074] Octavo. Original blue cloth, ornate design and titles to spine and front 17 cover in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, of which SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote 2 are full-page, all by Rackham. Spine rolled, frontispiece and plain Nations of the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. tissue guard a little spotted, an excellent copy. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1909 first trade edition, first impression, in one of a number Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, picto- of variant coloured bindings: the others were mint-green, light rial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original dark red ties. blue, brown, and red. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on buff paper inlaid Latimore & Haskell p. 33; Riall p. 91. in plain paper, black and white illustrations in the text, of which 2 are full-page, all by Rackham. A fine copy. £250 [113078]

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19 20 DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, [Friedrich Heinrich]. Undine. DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, [Friedrich Heinrich]. Undine Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney and . . . London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; York, 1909 Doubleday Page & Co., New York, 1909 Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pictori- Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, pictorial al image blocked in gilt to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge block to front cover gilt, original yellow silk ties. Colour frontispiece blue. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates and 14 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, black and white mounted on plain paper with a grey printed frame, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Offsetting to the half-title and illustrations in the text, by Rackham. A touch of toning to spine, slight rear endpaper as well as few pages with illustrations facing them, mod- discolouration along lower edges, offsetting to endpapers, in the dust erate soiling and spotting covers, corners with light rubbing. A very jacket. An excellent copy. good copy. first trade edition, first impression. A superb copy, rarely deluxe edition, number 306 of 1,000 copies signed by the seen in the dust jacket. The trade edition includes illustrations artist. to the endpapers not seen in the limited edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 35; Riall pp. 93–94. Latimore & Haskell p. 35; Riall pp. 93–94. £875 [112978] £500 [113089]

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21 successful translations from the Danish of Hans Christian GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Andersen and Henrik Pontoppidan. Her sister was the artist and illustrator Nelly Erichsen (1862–1918). Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Latimore & Haskell p. 34; Riall p. 97. Company Ltd, 1909 £6,750 [112980] Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk ribbon ties 22 renewed. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates mounted on plain GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales . . . London: paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Light soiling to covers, spotting to spine, a Constable & Company Ltd, 1909 touch of rubbing to corners and along bottom edge. An excellent copy. Quarto. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and deluxe edition, number 451 of 750 copies signed by the art- front cover gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge red. With the pictorial ist. Rackham’s first version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, published dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates mounted on plain in 1900, had no deluxe edition. This is a revised and enlarged paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers, light spotting to fore edition with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn edge, in the toned dust jacket with spotting to panels, restoration to and coloured. rear fold, front fold repaired with tape on verso, wear to extremities. A The translator was born Alice Erichsen, the daughter of very good copy not often seen in the dust jacket. Hermann Erichsen, a Danish businessman who had settled first trade edition, first impression. first in Newcastle upon Tyne, then in Upper Tooting, where Alice met her husband, Edgar Lucas (1845–1932). She also made Latimore & Haskell p. 34; Riall p. 97. £7,500 [112925]

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23 WAGNER, Richard. [The Ring of the Niblung; a Trilogy Bookplate of Maude Bentley in volume I; unnamed bookplates in both with a Prelude. Translated into English by Margaret volumes. Lightly rubbed, a little offsetting, an excellent set. Armour. I] The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, with illustrations deluxe editions, each volume being one of 1,150 copies by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; Doubleday signed by the artist, of which these are number 892 and number Page & Co., New York, 1910; [II] Siegfried & the Twilight of 477 respectively. the Gods, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Latimore & Haskell p. 37; Riall p. 103. William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York, 1911 £4,500 [112983] 2 volumes, quarto. Original vellum, titles to spines and front covers gilt, pictorial images blocked to front covers gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, silk ties largely defective, present only in fragments. Colour frontispieces and 33 and 29 colour plates respectively (64 colour plates in all) mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham.

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24 WAGNER, Richard. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie . . . ; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods . . . London: William Heinemann, 1910 & 1911 2 volumes, quarto. Original brown buckram, titles to front covers and spines gilt, pictorial images blocked to front covers gilt, top edges brown, pictorial endpapers. Volume 1 with the dust jacket. Colour frontispieces and 33 and 29 colour plates respectively (64 colour plates in all) mounted on tan paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Volume I in dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel reinforced with tape on verso, occasional spotting in both volumes, volume 2 with front inner hinge starting, moderate wear to extremities and bumping to corners. A very good set. first trade editions, volume I a second impression, but with the rarely seen dust jacket. Latimore & Haskell p. 37; Riall p. 103. £500 [113088]

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25 26 AESOP. Aesop’s Fables. A New Translation by V. S. AESOP. Aesop’s Fables . . . London: William Heinemann; Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1912 and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial images to spine Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1912 and front cover in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge green. Housed in a green quarter morocco folding case. Colour frontispiece and 12 Quarto. Original white buckram, titles and illustration to spine and colour plates with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the front cover gilt, plain endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. text, by Rackham. Front hinge cracked, spine rolled, rubbing to ends Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on brown paper, of spine and corners, toning to spine, light soiling to covers, a very with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, good copy. by Rackham. Bookplate of Gustave Martin. Spine toned, an excellent copy. first trade edition, first impression, published October deluxe edition, number 1,064 of 1,450 copies signed by the 1912. presentation copy to the artist’s sister-in-law Fanny artist, of which 250 were for the USA, 200 for Australia, and Starkie, inscribed on the half-title with an original ink draw- 1,000 for Great Britain and Ireland. Laid in is a promotional flying by Arthur Rackham of two crows, “To Fanny from Edyth er for the exhibition of the original watercolours for this title at & Arthur Rackham Christmas 1912”, the inscription in Edyth’s the Leicester Galleries, 19 October to 16 November 1912. hand except for Arthur’s signature. Latimore & Haskell pp. 38–39; Riall pp. 111–12. Latimore & Haskell pp. 38–39; Riall pp. 111–12. £2,250 [113090] £2,500 [113092]

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27 AESOP. Aesop’s Fables . . . London: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1916 Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial images to spine and front cover in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge green. Housed in a green cloth folding case. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- ham. Extremities rubbed, free endpapers browned, an occasional hint of foxing, an excellent copy. first trade edition, second impression, published July 1916. presentation copy from Rackham to noted Dutch graphic designer Johan Briedé (1885–1980), with an original drawing in ink on the half-title (two anthropomorphized trees), inscribed to Briedé, signed in full by Rackham and dated 22 September 1919; with Briedé’s bookplate on the facing blank and with his ownership inscription dated London 1919 on the half-title verso. (For another presentation to Briedé made on the same day, see item 10 above). Latimore & Haskell pp. 38–39; Riall pp. 111–12. £1,500 [113093]

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28 RACKHAM, Arthur. The Peter Pan Portfolio, from “Peter Galleries, “I like best of all the Serpentine with the fairies, and Pan in Kensington Gardens”, by J. M. Barrie. London: the Peter in his night-gown sitting in the tree. Next I would [sic] Hodder & Stoughton, [1912] the flying Peters, the fairies going to the ball (as in the ‘tiff ’ and the fairy on cobweb) – the fairies sewing the leaves with their Elephant folio. Original full vellum portfolio, titles to front cover gilt, sense of fun (the gayest thing this) and your treatment of snow” with the original ivory silk ties laced to a large bow at the spine and (Ray 329). Barrie’s comments seemingly influenced Rackham’s with two pairs of ivory silk ties carefully supplied to style to the fore edges. In the original green cloth-sided card box with full-page print- selection, as the portfolio includes all the images the author ed paper label to front. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco mentioned. solander box. 12 large proof-size colour plates mounted in mats, with Latimore & Haskell p. 39; Riall p. 113. captioned tissue guards, by Rackham. The box a little worn in places, but a fine copy, a remarkable survival of this luxurious presentation. £30,000 [113284] deluxe extra-limited edition, number 13 of 100 copies signed for the publisher and printer on the limitation page and each plate signed on the mount by the artist, bound in full vellum. According to Latimore & Haskell, although Rackham was supposed to sign all 100 copies, the artist confessed that he had signed only about 20 of them. Copies numbered 101 to 600 were issued in a half vellum portfolio with green cloth sides; none of these was signed by Rackham. The Peter Pan Portfolio reproduces 12 of Rackham’s favourite illustrations at their original size. Barrie wrote enthusiastically of Rackham’s originals, which he had seen exhibited at the Leicester

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29 deluxe edition, issued unsigned and without statement of BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From limitation. This edition is an improved revision of the 1906 edition (item 4 above), with a larger page size, an entirely new The Little White Bird. A New Edition Illustrated by Arthur setting of type, a new coloured frontispiece, and seven full- Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912] page black and white illustrations not in the earlier edition. Quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and The plates are distributed throughout, not gathered at the end front cover blocked in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others as in the 1906 edition. The edition is undated, except for the untrimmed, green ribbon ties renewed. With the original card slipcase new drawings, which are dated 1912 within the image. The cal- covered in white moiré paper (worn and rubbed, some repairs). Colour ligraphic title is printed in grey within a decorative frame print- frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on a greyish brown printed ed in pale green, and “Limited” is not added to the publishers’ frame, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Spine a little toned, free endpapers browned, name in the imprint. The running headlines are in an attractive two small marginal paper repairs to dedication leaf and pp. 31/32 not large italic face, with both upper and lower case letters, and affecting text, small marginal stain to first few leaves, else an excellent each chapter has a head- and tailpiece by Rackham. copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 40; Riall p. 114. £3,500 [112982]

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30 BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens . . . deluxe edition it is printed perpendicular on the verso of the A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [c.1920] contents leaf. Riall notes there are two different green cloths used for the Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine binding of the trade edition, either smooth or textured. The and front cover gilt, plain endpapers, fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket, priced 25/- net on the front flap. Colour frontis- cloth on this copy is an emerald-green linen-grain cloth, pre- piece and 49 colour plates mounted on plain paper, with captioned tis- sumably Riall’s textured variant. The green dust jacket, which sue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. repeats the lettering and pictorial designs of the case, has pre- Spine gently rolled, a touch of rubbing to corners, occasional spotting served the cloth in notably bright condition. internally, in the jacket with lightly sunned spine, shallow chipping Cf. Latimore & Haskell p. 40 and Riall p. 114. to corners, short closed tears to edges, and a few surface scratches to front panel; still a fine copy. £1,500 [112951] trade edition, later impression. The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton were incorporated as a limited company in December 1919, so copies such as this with “Limited” in the imprint must date after that. The title page is printed all in black (it was printed in two colours in the 1912 edition), but the book retains the reset 1912 text with the italic running headlines. It has a plain top edge and plain endpapers and is printed on good quality paper stock, with fore and lower edges untrimmed. In this issue, the map of Kensington Gardens is printed upright, on the recto of a single leaf with blank verso, whereas in the

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31 BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens . . . A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1920 or later] Quarto. Original smooth green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, plain endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket supplied from another copy, priced 25/- on the front flap, with a repeat of the frontispiece mounted on the front panel. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on plain paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Spine faded and worn at ends, a few marks to cloth, some browning internally, chiefly marginal, a good copy in the supplied dust jacket that is a little rubbed but generally fresh and clean. signed by rackham together with a sketch of Solomon Caw the crow, additionally signed by the author, J. M. Barrie, and by Princess Beatrice, the Marchioness of Milford Haven, Princess Marie Louise, and George Frampton, sculptor of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens commissioned by Barrie in 1912. The volume was very likely signed on the occasion of the “Peter Pan Party” in aid of Dr Barnardo’s, at Claridge’s, which was first held in 1920 and continued as an annual event into the 1930s. 31

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This copy is a later edition, not noted by the bibliographers. front free endpaper. A firm, bright copy, in the price-clipped dust jack- The title page is printed in black, with “Limited” after the pub- et that has some wear, rubbing and chips, head of spine restored with lisher’s name, as in the preceding item, but the text is altered tape on verso, overall a very good copy in the original decorative box. once more, being typeset from the original 1906 edition (the A copy from the same edition as the preceding item, with the running headlines all in capital letters), but with the head- and title page printed in black, the 1906 text setting augmented tailpieces from the 1912 new edition incorporated, all printed with the 1912 head- and tailpieces, the map printed perpendic- on slightly coarser paper stock with machine-trimmed edges, ular, and all edges trimmed. The price-clipped jacket, howev- resulting in a very slightly shorter book. The map of Kensington er, has a different illustration mounted on the front panel: “A Gardens is printed perpendicular, with the uncoloured illustra- chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, ‘Hoity-toity, tion of Kensington Gardens on the verso. what is this?’” The box has the illustration “An afternoon when Cf. Latimore & Haskell p. 40 and Riall p. 114. the Gardens were white with snow” mounted on the lid. Laid in to the book is a four-page folding advert for Hodder and £7,500 [112954] Stoughton’s illustrated books, undated but giving the price of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens bound in cloth, with 50 colour 32 plates, as 15/- net (the original price was 25/- net). The gift in- BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens . . . A scription on the front free endpaper is dated October 1931. New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1920 or £2,250 [112966] later] Quarto. Original smooth green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, plain endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. In the original decorative card box. Colour frontispiece and 49 colour plates mounted on plain paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Gift inscription to

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33 RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery deluxe edition, number 839 of 1,100 copies signed by the art- Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William ist for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies, with an addi- Heinemann, 1913 tional 30 copies reserved for presentation. Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt, titles Latimore & Haskell pp. 40–41; Riall pp. 115–16. and pictorial block to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the original white card slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 12 £2,250 [113094] colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. One corner lightly bumped, a hint of spotting and marking to the white cloth, in the worn slipcase; overall an excellent copy.

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34 35 RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose . . . London: William RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose . . . New York: The Heinemann, 1913 Century Co., 1913 Octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, titles to spine and front cover in Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, colour pictorial illus- blue and red, illustrated endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jack- tration of Old Mother Goose mounted on front cover. With the pic- et, priced 6/- net on the spine. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates torial dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, white illustrations in the text, by Rackham; title page printed in colour. by Rackham. Light spotting to fore-edge, in the dust jacket with mod- Bookplates of W. B. Goldstone and Clyde and Tubbs Murphy. An excel- erate spotting and soiling. An excellent copy. lent copy in the moderately soiled dust jacket with chipping to spine first trade edition, first impression. Unusually, the London ends and edges, paper reinforcement at head of spine verso. trade edition of Mother Goose is an entirely different setting of first american edition, first printing, published October type from the deluxe, with a smaller type area and the illustra- 1913. The American edition is a substantially different book tions mostly reduced in size. The colour plates are printed with- from the London edition, entirely reset, with a larger page size in a cream border directly on white paper rather than mounted, and the contents expanded from 162 to 279 rhymes. The col- all except the Old Mother Goose illustration (also used for the our plates are the same large size as the London deluxe edition, front panel of the dust jacket), which has a black border and printed on plain plate paper, omitting the Old Mother Goose is the same size as the deluxe version. This copy conforms to plate, which instead forms the basis of the front cover design. Riall’s description of the first of two known trade bindings, ex- The title page is a sampler design printed in colour that is not in cept that here the top edge is blue, not green. Riall notes that the English edition. later issues and editions have plain endpapers. Latimore & Haskell pp. 40–41; Riall pp. 115–16. Latimore & Haskell pp. 40–41; Riall pp. 115–16. £950 [113097] £1,750 [113096]

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36 37 RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: . . . London: William Heinemann, 1913 William Heinemann, 1913 Quarto. Original grey-green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front front cover gilt, front pastedown printed with a sketch of a bookplate cover gilt, front pastedown printed with a sketch of a bookplate by by Rackham, top edge green, others trimmed straight. With the dust Rackham, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 43 jacket. Colour frontispiece and 43 colour plates mounted on tan paper, colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, captioned tissue guards, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Spine a little all by Rackham. Bookplate removed from front endpaper; Times Book toned, front free endpaper browned, occasional spotting; an excellent Club ticket at foot of rear pastedown. Cloth a little darkened at corners, copy. front free endpaper browned, in the jacket with a large chip at head of spine and splits at folds; a very good copy. deluxe edition, number 729 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist for sale in Great Britain, Ireland, and Colonies, with an first trade edition, first impression. Riall notes that lat- additional 30 copies reserved for presentation. In a reversion er editions do not have the bookplate printed on the front to the earliest style of Rackham’s deluxe illustrated books, the pastedown. plates are gathered at the end of the volume. Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall p. 118. Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall p. 118. £750 [113099] £2,000 [113098]

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38 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by deluxe edition, number 64 of 500 copies signed by the artist Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott for sale in Great Britain, Ireland, and Colonies, with an addi- Co., New York, 1915 tional 25 copies reserved for presentation. Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine Latimore & Haskell pp. 44–45; Riall pp. 124–25. and front cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk ribbon ties renewed. Housed in a brown slipcase with Cockerell £4,500 [112969] paper sides. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Covers slightly bowed, some slight spotting, untrimmed edges a little browned; a very good copy.

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39 40 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol . . . London: William DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol . . . London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1915 Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1915 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial design to spine and Octavo. Original brown grained leather, titles to spine and front cover front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket printed gilt, image blocked in gilt to front cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge in green and red. Colour frontispiece mounted on white paper and 11 gilt. Colour frontispiece mounted on white paper and 11 colour plates colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustra- with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, tions in the text, by Rackham. Cloth on spine very slightly faded, free by Rackham. Gift inscription to half-title dated Christmas 1922. Occa- endpapers foxed, half-title and last leaf verso browned, else a fine copy sional spotting to pages, touch of rubbing to ends of spine, spine with in the jacket that is lightly toned with wear to extremities and a small a hint of sunning. An excellent copy. chip mid spine. first trade edition, in the publisher’s special deluxe first trade edition, first issue with the mounted frontis- binding, the rarest of all the various original bindings. This piece and the date printed on the verso of the title page. The copy is the first issue with the frontispiece mounted on white bibliographies claim that the frontispiece in the first issue is paper and the date printed on the verso of the title page. mounted on green paper, but in our experience it is invariably Variant not in Latimore & Haskell; Riall p. 124. white. Latimore & Haskell pp. 44–45; Riall p. 124–25. £1,250 [113100] £1,250 [113103]

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41 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol . . . London: William signs of later issue, yet with the date 1915 on the title verso. Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1915 Nevertheless, the book was published for the Christmas market in 1915 and Rackham’s dated inscription gives it authority as an Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine and front cover with pictorial early issue. designs and lettering in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge purple. Housed in a purple quarter morocco solander box. Colour frontispiece Latimore & Haskell pp. 44–45; Riall p. 124–25. and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Spine considerably faded with £3,750 [112905] dulling of gilt, extremities rubbed, top edge faded, still a good copy. first trade edition, presentation copy to the artist’s sister-in-law Fanny Starkie, inscribed on the half-title with an original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham of a boy and a dog in the rain, “To Fannie [sic] with Best Christmas Wishes from Edyth & Arthur Rackham Xmas 1915”, the inscription in Arthur’s hand except for Edyth’s signature. The exact status of this impression is unclear. The bibliographies state that the first impression of the trade edition is in green cloth with pictorial designs and lettering in dark green, 41 with the frontispiece mounted on dark green paper (in our experience, this is always white) and the date 1915 on the title verso. This copy has purple cloth with designs and lettering in gilt and the frontispiece printed directly on plate paper, supposedly

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42 43 The Allies’ Fairy Book. With an Introduction by Edmund The Allies’ Fairy Book . . . London: William Heinemann; J. B. Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Lippincott Co., Philadelphia [1916] William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia [1916] Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and dark blue to front Small quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, cover, pictorial images blocked in gilt to front cover, illustrated end- pictorial design blocked in gilt to front cover, illustrated endpapers, papers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, plates mounted on thick brown paper with captioned tissue guards, by Rackham. Sticker of the Amsterdam branch of the Bond van Neu- black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine and board trale Landen on half-title, bookplate with “M. Berline” and “1917” edges a little toned, free endpapers browned, an excellent copy. completed by hand on half-title verso, note of acquisition by the same person in The Hague in 1917 at the foot of the contents page. Boards deluxe edition, number 347 of 525 copies signed by the art- slightly bowed, free endpapers browned, a very good copy in the toned ist, of which 500 were for sale. A collection of fairy tales from dust jacket with some chipping at the extremities. various countries – English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, first trade edition, first impression. Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, and Belgian – intended to demonstrate the richness of the folklore of the Allies. Gosse’s Latimore & Haskell pp. 45-46; Riall p. 128. preface is dated August 1916. £500 [113140] Latimore & Haskell pp. 45-46; Riall p. 128. £875 [113139]

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44 45 GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother and Little GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother & Little Sister Sister and Other Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. . . . London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917 London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917 Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to front cover and Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial gilt titles on spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge green, others untrimmed. a white ground to front cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, oth- With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mount- ers untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on ed on heavy grey paper, black and white illustrations in the text, by heavier white paper with loose tissue guards, black and white illustra- Rackham. Jacket spine toned and chipped at extremities (tape repair tions in the text, by Rackham. Presentation inscription (dated 1941) on verso), offsetting and foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. on verso of front free endpaper; old pale stain on back cover, light rub- first trade edition, first impression. This edition has one bing to extremities, head and tail of spine only slightly bumped, short plate less than the deluxe edition, which included a plate at closed-tear into margin at p. 209, light offsetting from tissue guards p. 178 entitled “He hurried away with long strides”. The pres- yet still an excellent copy. ence of a dust jacket is not noted by either Latimore & Haskell or deluxe edition, number 505 of 525 copies signed by the art- Riall; this example is priced 10/6 net on the spine. ist; with the extra plate signed by Rackham (in its original print- Latimore & Haskell pp. 46–7; Riall p. 129. ed envelope), a repeat of that facing p. 178 (“He hurried away with long strides”). £950 [113144] Latimore & Haskell pp. 46–7; Riall p. 129. £3,250 [113145]

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46 47 POLLARD, Alfred W. The Romance of King Arthur and POLLARD, Alfred W. The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory’s his Knights of the Round Table . . . London: Macmillan and Morte D’Arthur. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Co., Limited, 1917 Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917 Large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, pictorial gilt, gilt title vignette blocked in gilt to front cover, top edge golden title block to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour brown. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by by Rackham. Old tape repairs to extremities of jacket, short closed- Rackham. Binding a little mottled, very slight soiling on back cover. A tear at head of front panel, still a very good copy. very good copy, unopened in places. first trade edition, first impression. deluxe edition, number 292 of 500 numbered copies signed Latimore & Haskell pp. 47; Riall p. 130. by the artist. £750 [113153] Latimore & Haskell pp. 47; Riall p. 130. £2,000 [113149]

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48 STEEL, Flora Annie. English Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1918 Quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, vignette blocked in gilt to front cover, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy off-white paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Engraved armorial rococo bookplate of Kathleen Alice Cuthbert; covers a little dished, lightly mottled and only very slightly soiled. A very good copy. deluxe edition, number 343 of 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 48; Riall p. 132.

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49 50 SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life: SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse. . . . London: William Heinemann, 1918 Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, Quarto. Original green cloth, pictorial stamping and lettering to spine 1918 and front cover in gilt, top edge green, decorative endpapers. With the dust jacket supplied from the later reprint. Bookplate to front paste- Quarto. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured covers, titles to front down. A touch of rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy, in the fine cover and spine in gilt, pictorial image blocked to front cover in gilt, supplied jacket. illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 8 colour plates mounted on heavy brown paper with cap- first trade edition, first impression, with green top edge, tioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- captioned tissue guards, and decorative endpapers. Riall notes ham. Bookplate (anonymous) on verso of front free endpaper; some a later reprint, still dated 1918, but with plain top edge, clear discolouration to periphery of covers, light offsetting to endpapers, tissue guards, and plain endpapers. front and end matter. A very good copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 48–49; Riall p. 133. deluxe edition, number 492 of 765 copies signed by the artist. This edition contains one extra plate to the trade issue: the £300 [113131] frontispiece depicting Swinburne as Pan addressing a group of fairy children beneath a typically Rackhamesque tree. Latimore & Haskell pp. 48–49; Riall p. 133. £850 [113136]

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51 52 EVANS, C. S. Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. EVANS, C. S. Cinderella . . . London: William Heinemann; London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1919 1919 Quarto. Original tan cloth spine, green covers, titles to spine and front Quarto. Original vellum spine, cream-coloured covers, titles to front cover in black, silhouette of Cinderella to front cover in black, illustrat- cover and spine gilt, illustration of Cinderella blocked to front cover ed green endpapers, top edge gilt others untrimmed. With the dust gilt, green illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Decorative title page jacket. Decorative title page printed red, pale green and black, colour printed red, pale green and black, colour frontispiece mounted within frontispiece mounted within decorative border, 7 full-page three-col- decorative border, 7 full-page three-colour illustrations, full-page sil- our illustrations, full-page silhouette illustrations and decorations houette illustrations and decorations throughout, by Rackham. Very throughout, by Rackham. Light offsetting from the illustrations. An slight bump to extremities of spine, only slight signs of handling to exceptional copy. covers. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 829 of 850 copies, one of the 525 deluxe edition, number 296 of 325 copies on Japanese vel- copies printed on English handmade paper (325 copies were lum; a further 525 copies were printed on English handmade produced on Japanese vellum; see previous item). paper. Included here is one full-page illustration that was not Latimore & Haskell p. 49-50; Riall p. 134. reproduced in the trade issue: a three-colour silhouette of Cinderella and the pumpkin (opposite chapter 1). £1,850 [113126] Latimore & Haskell pp. 49–50; Riall p. 134. 53 £2,000 [113104] EVANS, C. S. Cinderella . . . London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1919

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Small quarto. Original orange cloth spine, pictorial paper overlays on deluxe edition, number 39 of 575 numbered copies signed sides, titles to spine in black, green illustrated endpapers. With the by Rackham. dust jacket. Decorative title page printed red, pale green and black, colour frontispiece mounted within decorative border, 6 full-page Latimore & Haskell p. 49-50; Riall p. 134. three-colour illustrations, full-page silhouette illustrations and dec- £1,250 [113107] orations throughout, by Rackham. A touch of foxing. An exceptional copy. 55 first trade edition, first impression. Some British Ballads . . . London: Constable & Co. Ltd, [1919] Latimore & Haskell pp. 49–50; Riall p. 134. Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine £675 [113105] and front cover gilt, grey pictorial endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy 54 grey paper with plain tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket spine lightly toned, a few nicks and chips at Some British Ballads. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. extremities, closed-tear into head of front panel, covers just slightly London: William Heinemann, 1919 splayed, slight smudge to title page. An excellent copy. Quarto. Original cream cloth, vellum spine, titles to spine and front first trade edition; a later issue with grey pictorial end- cover gilt, vignette blocked in gilt to front covers, top edge gilt. Tipped- papers and blue top edge (the first impression had plain white in colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on white paper endpapers and gilt top edge). with captioned tissue guards, black and illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers, lightly toned covers, corners a Latimore & Haskell p. 51; Riall p. 137. touched rubbed, spine ends bumped. An excellent copy. £500 [113189]

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56 FORT, Paul. Le Livre des ballades. Paris: L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, 1921 Quarto (300 x 230 mm). Contemporary olive-green quarter morocco, titles to spine gilt, central blind tooled leaf motif, marbled sides. Title page and decorative border to letterpress printed in pale green, 14 colour plates mounted on off-white paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Light peripheral toning. An excellent copy, with the original pictorial wrappers bound in. deluxe french edition, an adaptation of Some British Ballads (1919), number 633 of 1,300 copies. The French symbolist poet Paul Fort translated the original work and added “some com- pletely different ballads” (Riall), drawing on what would be- come his monumental 40-volume Les Ballades françaises (1896– 1958). There are black and white vignettes by Rackham included in this edition that are not in the English edition. Latimore & Haskell pp. 50–51; Riall pp. 137 & 244. £950 [113321]

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57 58 STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales . . . London: Macmillan Rackham. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920 & Co. Ltd, 1920 Quarto. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured covers, titles to spine Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to front cover and and front cover gilt, image blocked in gilt to front cover, top edges gilt, spine gilt, illustration blocked in gilt to front cover, top edge pale others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted brown. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissue on heavy cream-coloured paper with captioned tissue guards, black guards, line drawings in the text, by Rackham. Front and back free and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Anonymous book- endpapers toned. An excellent copy. plate; slight pale blemish on spine, shallow lateral scratch across back first trade edition, first impression. Riall calls for gilt cover, touch of foxing to endpapers, one or two thumb marks. A very top but this is not noted by Latimore & Haskell and it is per- good copy. haps a mistake for the brown top here. The last leaf verso has deluxe edition, one of 520 copies signed by the artist. Macmillan’s advertisements for seven other titles by James Latimore & Haskell pp. 52-53; Riall p. 138. Stephens. £2,500 [113108] Latimore & Haskell p. 52; Riall p. 138. £300 [112985]

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59 60 EVANS, C. S. The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur EVANS, C. S. The Sleeping Beauty . . . London: William Rackham. London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co, Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia, 1920 Philadelphia, 1920 Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered red cloth, titles to spine in Quarto. Original quarter vellum, cream-coloured covers, gilt titles to black, plain endpapers. With the dust jacket. One mounted colour spine, titles and decoration to front cover gilt, green pictorial endpa- plate, 3 double-page silhouette drawings with colour, 1 full page sil- pers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Three-colour frontispiece and houette drawing with colour, 8 single-page silhouette drawings in title page within pictorial borders, one colour plate mounted within a black and white and drawings in the text by Rackham. Large bookplate silhouette border, 3 double-page three-colour silhouette illustrations, to front pastedown of author and son of the founder of Harrods, H. H. 2 full page three-colour silhouette illustrations, 8 single-page silhou- Harrod, a faint touch of soiling to rear panel of the dust jacket. An ex- ettes and drawings in the text, by Rackham. Touch of foxing to head of ceptionally bright example of this title. front cover, light offsetting from illustrations. An excellent copy. first trade edition, first impression, this copy in Riall’s deluxe edition, number 151 of 625 copies printed on English “dusky red” dust jacket; there were also jackets printed on pink handmade paper and signed by the artist; with an extra full- paper. page three-colour silhouette illustration not present in the Latimore & Haskell p. 52.; Riall p. 141. trade edition. £675 [112986] Latimore & Haskell p. 52; Riall p. 141. £1,750 [112984]

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61 62 MILTON, John. Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. MILTON, John. Comus . . . London: William Heinemann; London: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, [1921] [1921] Small quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, Quarto. Original vellum spine, cream-coloured covers, titles to spine pictorial image blocked to front cover gilt, blue illustrated endpapers, and front cover gilt, image blocked to front cover gilt, pale blue pictori- top edge green. Colour frontispiece and 23 coloured plates mounted al endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and on heavy tan paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illus- 23 coloured plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tis- trations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket with some old tape repairs on sue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Very verso, extremities chipped (ink added to reinforcing tape to improve slight bump to lower corners. An excellent copy, largely unopened. presentation), touch of foxing to fore edge and endpapers. A very good copy, the binding sharp-cornered and bright. deluxe edition, number 313 of 550 numbered copies signed by the artist. first trade edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 54; Riall p. 143. Latimore & Haskell p. 54; Riall p. 143. £1,000 [112996] £300 [112997]

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63 he entered the Royal Academy Schools to study painting. He made PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. With illustrations by long painting expeditions, to Spain in 1876 and France in 1878, and in 1879–80 spent eight months in Tunis, painting and contributing Arthur Rackham. London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921 illustrated articles to The Globe and The Graphic” (ODNB). Both men Small quarto. Original cream-coloured cloth, titles to spine and front grew up in Kennington, south London. cover gilt, pictorial image to front cover blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, Latimore & Haskell p. 54; Riall p. 144. others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 2 colour plates mounted on cream-coloured paper with tissue guards, black £1,750 [112994] and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Very slight soiling to covers, a few faint red pencil marks on back cover, top corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. 64 deluxe edition, number 294 of 500 numbered copies signed PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples . . . London & New by both author and artist. presentation copy from Rackham, York: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921] inscribed on the blank page opposite the limitation leaf: “To Sir Octavo. Original “rose-grey” cloth, titles to spine and front cover in Harry Johnston from Arthur Rackham, Christmas 1921” and ac- dark brown, pictorial image stamped to front cover in brown, grey pic- companied with a vivacious original pen and ink drawing of a torial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 2 col- sprite: very similar to the puckish little figure who appears on pag- our plates mounted on off-white paper with plain tissue guards, black es 13 and 24 of this book. Sir Henry Hamilton “Harry” Johnston and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket lightly soiled, a (1858–1927), explorer and colonial administrator, was a student at few nicks and chips. An excellent copy. the Lambeth School of Art a decade before Rackham took evening first trade edition, first impression. classes at the same institution. “At the age of ten Johnston had a Latimore & Haskell p. 54; Riall p. 144. year away from school to develop his precocious talents, drawing and painting at the Lambeth School of Art and studying an- £300 [112993] imals and birds at the London Zoological Gardens . . . [in 1875]

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65 plates mounted on off-white heavy paper with captioned tissue guards, 8 three-colour full-page illustrations and black and white decorations HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. Illustrated in the text, by Rackham. Jacket spine evenly toned, light soiling to pan- by Arthur Rackham. London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & els. An excellent copy, the binding sharp-cornered and bright and in a Stoughton Ltd, [1922] superior example of the jacket. Quarto. Original cream-coloured buckram, spine lettered in gilt, titles first trade edition, first impression. and vignette to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pic- Latimore & Haskell, p. 55; Riall p. 146. torial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy off-white paper with captioned tissue guards, 8 three-colour full- £950 [112999] page illustrations and black and white decorations in the text, by Rack- ham. Spine gently rolled, light soiling to covers. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 147 of 600 copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell, p. 55; Riall p. 146. £1,500 [113000]

66 HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book . . . London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, [1922] Small quarto. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt, title to front cover in blind, pictorial stamp to front cover gilt, top edge blue, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour 66

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67 69 MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. With MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins . . . New Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William York: Doubleday, Page and Co.; William Heinemann Ltd, London, Heinemann Ltd; Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, [1925] [1925] Quarto. Original black cloth spine, cream-coloured covers, titles to Quarto. Original black vertical-ribbed cloth spine, printed labels to spine gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. spine and front cover, metallic blue and green mottled sides, top edge With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Without slipcase. Colour white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Very slight rumpling and frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the soiling to jacket. An excellent copy. text, by Rackham. A touch of rubbing to corners, an excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 110 of 175 copies signed by both au- deluxe american edition, number 89 of 100 copies signed thor and artist. by both author and artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 60; Riall p. 154. Latimore & Haskell p. 60; Riall p. 154. £1,250 [113004] £875 [113003]

68 70 MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins . . . London: MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins . . . New William Heinemann Ltd; Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, York: Doubleday, Page & Co; William Heinemann Ltd., [1925] [1925] Small quarto. Original pale blue linen cloth, titles to spine and front Small quarto. Original bright blue smooth cloth, titles to spine and cover gilt, vignette to front cover gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge front cover gilt, vignette to front cover gilt, top edge blue, illustrated gilt. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white il- and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Price-clipped jacket lustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket soiled and with nicks, chips rather tattered and dampstained across back and head of front panels, and closed-tears, endpapers toned. A very good copy. with concomitant slight discolouration to rear cover of binding; neat Christmas gift inscription to half-title dated 1925. A very good copy, first trade edition, first printing; this copy signed by the binding sharp-cornered and bright. Rackham on the half-title. first american trade edition, first printing. Latimore & Haskell p. 60; Riall p. 154. Latimore & Haskell p. 60; Riall p. 154. £1,000 [48525] £150 [113005]

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71 in all other copies known to us. Latimore & Haskell state that BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. Illustrated by “later issues of this edition do not have pictorial endpapers”; this copy has pictorial endpapers. Arthur Rackham. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925 Latimore & Haskell p. 59; Riall, p. 155. Quarto. Original vellum spine, gilt-lettered black morocco label, cornflower blue sides, Housed in a fleece-lined, blue quarter moroc- £500 [113232] co solander box. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates mounted and with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, 73 by Rackham. Sides very slightly faded along top edges, small neat ink blot at foot of front free endpaper. A lovely copy. BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. The wonderful deluxe edition, number 78 of 105 copies signed by the au- story of a wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest thor. Unlike most of Rackham’s deluxe editions this one was not toy in the house until he went out to explore the world. signed by him, nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925 This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. The story first Small quarto. Original orange cloth, titles and decoration to spine and appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, from May 1925. front cover in red. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 6 col- Latimore & Haskell p. 59; Riall p. 155. our plates mounted on same paper as letterpress, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket with old tape repairs on verso, £6,750 [113178] some loss and a few closed-tears, front panel creased at head and lower fore-corner, touch of foxing to preliminary matter. A very good copy, 72 the binding sharp-cornered and bright. BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco . . . New York: first british trade edition, first impression. George H. Doran Company, 1925 Latimore & Haskell p. 59; Riall, p. 155. Small quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, £500 [113230] pictorial image to front cover blocked in gilt. With the dust jacket. Col- our frontispiece and 6 colour plates mounted on the same paper as letterpress, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket spine toned and chipped at extremities, a few nicks, chips and closed- tears, binding with short split at head of spine. A very good copy, the binding sharp-cornered and bright. first trade edition, first printing. Rather misleadingly, Doran’s print code at the foot of the copyright page has B, as

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74 75 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest . . . London: Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann Ltd; Doubleday, William Heinemann Ltd; Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, Page & Company, New York, 1926 1926 Quarto. Original quarter japon, titles to spine gilt, cream-coloured Small quarto. Original grey-black cloth, titles to spine and front cover covers, title and mermaid design to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, oth- gilt, pictorial image blocked to front cover gilt, top edge yellow. With ers untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 20 colour the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on the plates mounted on the same paper as the letterpress, black and white same paper as the letterpress with captioned paper guards, black and illustrations in text, by Rackham. Jacket spine and front panel toned, white illustrations in text, by Rackham. Jacket spine toned, minor nicks triangular rumpled closed-tear to back panel. An excellent copy. and creases, spine of binding just a little rolled. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 30 of 520 numbered copies signed by first trade edition, first impression. A particularly attrac- the artist; following the half-title is an extra plate, “Sea-nymphs tive copy with the dust jacket. hourly ring his knell”, not present in the trade edition. The Latimore & Haskell p. 61; Riall p. 161. dust jacket is particularly scarce and is not noted by Latimore & Haskell; Riall does note it though fails to mention that it carries £975 [113234] a different price than the trade edition: “Three Guineas net”, as opposed to “21s. net”. Latimore & Haskell p. 61; Riall p. 161. £2,750 [113233]

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76 illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Covers lightly bowed, corners a touched rubbed, in the dust jacket with crease fold lines to rear panel IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. and along front flap fold. An excellent copy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & first trade edition, first impression. Co. Ltd, 1928 Latimore & Haskell p. 64; Riall p. 164-165. Quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 7 £750 [113238] colour plates mounted on the same paper as the letterpress with captioned paper guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- 78 ham. Coloured armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper; gilt lettering on spine lightly rubbed, slight bump to lower corner of back IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . . . cover, one “bloom” of discolouration on front cover. An excellent copy. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1928 deluxe edition, number 215 of 250 copies signed by the artist. Quarto. Original brown calf, titles and decorations to spine and front Latimore & Haskell pp. 63-64; Riall p. 164. cover gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. £2,500 [113240] Rear hinge cracked, spine lightly sunned, light rubbing to corners and ends of spine. A very good copy. 77 first trade edition, in the publisher’s special bind- IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . . . ing. This special binding was issued at the same time as the London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1928 second edition of the book. Latimore & Haskell p. 64; Riall p. 164-165. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt, gilt vignette to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. With the £975 [113237] dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white

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79 GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated free handed. The nature of the paper is such that there can be by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Company no preparatory drawing and no alterations”. Riall comments Limited, 1929 that “From The King of the Golden River (1932), Harrap issued nine or ten copies, seven being for sale, of a special issue of the first Quarto. Specially bound for the publisher in contemporary red moroc- limitation numbers of the limited edition” (A New Bibliography co, titles and design to spine in gilt, two-line gilt border on front cover, of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xvi). However, the present example two-line blind border on back cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, shows that the practice had its origins earlier than 1932: indeed, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a later red cloth chemise and solander box. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, black and white illus- this copy may represent the earliest example of the format. trations in the text, by Rackham. Collector’s bookplate of Cyril Sturla. Latimore & Haskell p. 65; Riall, p. 170. Light, shallow scratch to front cover, single small “bloom” of foxing at head of frontispiece and title. An excellent copy. £22,500 [112917] deluxe edition, number 1 of 575 copies, signed by the artist. This is the first of what would have been no more than a very few “special copies” in a luxury binding commissioned by the publisher; this copy handsomely bound for the publisher George C. Harrap, with his initial “H” stamped in gilt on the front cover, and with an original pen-and-ink sketch with red highlights by Rackham on the limitation leaf, depicting a lady with a fan, signed “Arthur Rackham, 23 Oct 29”. Describing his artistic method for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitably be of a light hearted or joking nature . . . They have to be spontaneous and 79

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80 illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Light signs of handling to the box, touch of foxing to fore-edge and title page. An excellent copy. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield . . . London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1929 first trade edition, first impression, in the publisher’s special binding of “Persian morocco”. Small quarto. Original vellum, gilt title to spine and front cover, triple Latimore & Haskell p. 65; Riall p. 170. rule to front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher’s original box. Colour frontispiece and 12 col- £750 [113243] our plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Box evenly toned and with light signs of handling, scattered pale foxing. An excellent copy. 82 deluxe edition, number 7 of 575 copies signed by the artist. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield . . . Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1930?] Latimore & Haskell p. 65; Riall p. 170. Small quarto. Original blue-grey cloth, gilt titles and decoration to £1,500 [113244] spine and front cover, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket and the publisher’s original box. Colour frontispiece and 11 col- 81 our plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. An GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield . . . London: exemplary copy, just the slightest touch of foxing to the jacket and title page, and light signs of handling to the box. George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1929. first american trade edition, first printing; inscribed Small quarto. Publisher’s special binding of olive-green morocco, titles neatly on the title page verso: “December 1930” – presumably to spine and front cover gilt, front cover with coloured morocco onlays the month of publication. (recreating the colour plate “An epitaph for my wife”) in white, black, red, and green, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher’s Latimore & Haskell p. 65; Riall p. 170. original box. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, black and white £450 [113258]

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83 WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Small quarto. Specially bound for the publisher by Sangorski & Sut- cliffe in red crushed morocco, spine gilt tooled with a fish motif (closely resembling that used on copies in the vellum binding), concentric gilt panels on sides with fish motif at corners, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, three-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Attractive bookplate of Cyril Sturla (a captain in the Cheshire Regiment during the Great War). An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 757 copies signed by the artist; this is one of 14 “special copies” in a luxury binding commissioned by the publisher containing an original signed pen-and- ink and watercolour sketch by Rackham. This sketch is captioned “Handle him as if you loved him” (Walton’s dictum for handling a live frog before impaling it on a hook) and shows a riparian scene with a frog pleading with a gentleman, while a typically Rackhamesque anthropomorphic tree looks on. “Harrap threw a presentation party, for the publication of The Compleat Angler, on 24th September 1931. There were fourteen guests, including the publishers, the printers and Rackham. Each guest was presented with a publishers leather bound edition, and these books had a signed sketch by Rackham on the half-title page” (Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xiii). Although not marked as his, Harrap usually retained copy number 1 for his personal library. Latimore & Haskell pp. 66-67; Riall p. 175. £27,500 [112911]

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84 deluxe edition, limited to 775 copies; this copy out of series WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler . . . London: George and bound in wrappers. Presumably there were, as usual, a few “overs” on the print run but not enough vellum to bind them all. G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Latimore & Haskell p. 66; Riall p. 175. Small quarto. Original vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, three-line gilt border on front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, £500 [113229] pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by 86 Rackham. Spine nicked at head, old pale stain at foot of back cover (with only very slight discolouration to a few pages). A very good copy. WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler . . . London: George deluxe edition, number 202 of 775 copies signed by the artist. G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Latimore & Haskell p. 66; Riall p. 175. Small quarto. Publisher’s green morocco, titles and decoration to spine and front cover gilt, double gilt fillet to front cover, top edge gilt, £650 [113224] green pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, 85 by Rackham. An excellent copy. WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler . . . London: George first trade edition in the publisher’s special binding. G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Latimore & Haskell p. 66; Riall p. 175. Small quarto. Original brown wrappers, front panel of dust jacket past- £500 [113227] ed to front cover, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Vertical crease to spine. An excellent copy, largely unopened.

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87 88 WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler . . . Philadelphia, DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes. Illustrated by Arthur David McKay Co, [1931] Rackham. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. London: Small quarto. Original blue-green cloth, titles and decoration to spine Limited Editions Club, 1931 and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt, bells and imps design to jacket and the publisher’s original box. Colour frontispiece and 11 front cover in gilt and black, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher’s colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustra- pictorial card slipcase. Black and white frontispiece, black and white tions in the text, by Rackham. Tray of box neatly strengthened with illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine toned, in the lightly worn tape, back panel of jacket lightly soiled, a few tape repairs to verso, slipcase. An excellent copy. pale dampstain at foot of front panel. A very good copy, the binding sharp-cornered and bright deluxe edition, number 918 of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the artist. This is the only edition of this title to fea- first american trade edition, first printing. ture Rackham’s illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p. 66; Riall p. 175. Latimore & Haskell p. 67; Riall p. 173. £300 [113256] £500 [113247]

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89 90 MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas . . . Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931 Co Ltd, 1931 Octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers, illustrated endpapers. Octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, With the dust jacket. Housed in a red quarter morocco, fleece-lined others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcase solander box. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white (with hand-numbered spine label). Housed in a red quarter morocco, illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket a little soiled and toned, velvet-lined solander box by the Chelsea bindery. Colour frontispiece some chips, nicks and tears (with some loss at head of spine), binding and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- slightly worn at head, scattered pale foxing. A very good copy. ham. Front pastedown endpaper cockled, vellum at lower fore-corner first trade edition, first impression. presentation copy, of back cover puckered (both having occurred during the binding pro- with an original pen-and-ink drawing of a sprightly St Nicholas cess), some light offsetting. An excellent copy. on the half-title, inscribed “To Fanny with best wishes from deluxe edition, number 124 of 550 copies signed by the art- Edyth and Arthur Rackham, Christmas 1931”. Fanny Starkie was ist. With an original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham’s sister-in-law. Rackham (signed and dated “Arthur Rackham 1931”) on a leaf Riall, p. 174. facing the half-title, depicting St Nicholas striding along with sack over shoulder, as a robin and an anthropomorphic tree £3,750 [112914] look on. Latimore & Haskell p. 66; Riall p. 174. £25,000 [113245]

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91 large books more in keeping with the old style of the classic de- MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. luxe gift book. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931; RUSKIN, John. The £5,000 [113173] King of the Golden River. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1932; ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. London: George 92 G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933; BROWNING, Robert. The Pied MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1934 London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931; RUSKIN, John. The Together 4 works, octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover King of the Golden River. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcases, with hand-numbered labels to spines (that of Ros- 1932; ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. London: George setti on the end). Each work with colour frontispiece and 3 colour G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933; BROWNING, Robert. The Pied plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Some Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1934 light foxing to slipcases, endpapers cockled and vellum a little puck- Together 4 works, octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers, illus- ered at corners (these a common production flaw with these books), trated endpapers. With the dust jackets. Each work with colour fron- excellent copies, Moore with the publisher’s flyer laid-in. tispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, all deluxe editions, each signed by the artist: Moore, number by Rackham. Jackets lightly soiled and a little worn, small ownership 68 of 550 copies; Ruskin, number 231 of 570 copies; Rossetti, inscription to front free endpaper of fourth work, all very good to ex- number 41 of 410 copies; Browning, number 297 of 410 copies. cellent. These four shorter books, published annually by Harrap in first trade editions, first impressions. matching formats, both in deluxe and trade editions, inaugu- rated a new format for Rackham’s works, and alternated with £1,200 [113835]

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93 RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated “Arthur Rackham 1932”, showing Southwest Wind Esquire doff- by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1932 ing his hat to Schwartz, one of the two cruel Black Brothers. Later copies of this Rackham “special” have a publisher’s Octavo (232 x 143 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green note on the limitation page, stating that nine “specials” were morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and banded spine, single-line gilt panel on sides with simple square dot at the corners, top produced, of which eight were for sale. Although unmarked as edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpa- such, this first copy was Harrap’s own retained copy. pers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binders blanks), Latimore & Haskell p. 67; Riall p. 176 with the binder’s card slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine lightly £16,500 [112898] sunned and rubbed. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 570 copies signed by the artist. 94 This is one of nine “special copies” in a luxury binding commis- RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River . . . London: sioned by the publisher and including a striking full-page orig- George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1932 inal pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated

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Octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, some nicks, chips and creases, some foxing a marks to a few pages, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcase (with slight ink blemishes in margin of frontispiece. A very good copy. hand-numbered spine label). Housed in a custom made green quarter first trade edition, first impression. presentation copy morocco, fleece-lined solander box. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour from the artist and his wife, inscribed on the half-title: “To plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Endpapers cockled, vellum a little puckered at corners (both having occurred during Fanny from Edyth & Arthur Rackham, Xmas 32” and with an the binding process: a common trait with this book). An excellent copy. accompanying pen-and-ink sketch of the King of the Golden River. Fanny Starkie was Rackham’s sister-in-law. deluxe edition, number 318 of 570 copies signed by the artist. With an original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Latimore & Haskell p. 67; Riall p. 176 Rackham (signed and dated “Arthur Rackham 1932”) on the £2,000 [112915] limitation leaf, depicting the 12-year-old Gluck opening the window to Southwest Wind, Esquire. Latimore & Haskell p. 67; Riall p. 176 £9,750 [113250]

95 RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River . . . London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932 Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made blue quarter morocco, fleece-lined solander box. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket light soiled, spine toned, 95

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96 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932 Quarto (262 x 189 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelled spine, concentric gilt panels on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). With the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Very slight shallow indentation to front cover. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 525 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten or so “special copies” reserved by the publisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham 1932” and captioned “The Tinder Box”), and illustrating the opening of the story on page 155, showing the soldier hiding in a tree and the old witch holding the other end of a rope. Although unmarked as such, this first copy was Harrap’s own retained copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 68; Riall, p. 177. £27,500 [112896]

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97 by Rackham. Ownership inscription on verso of front endpaper; spine toned and a little worn at extremities, a few scuffs to binding. A good ANDERSEN, Hans. Fairy Tales . . . London: George G. Harrap copy. & Co. Ltd, 1932 first trade edition, first impression. inscribed by the Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, three-line artist on the first blank with a pen-and-ink self-portrait sign- gilt border enclosing titles to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others un- ing his name and dated 5 May 1933, and subsequently re-in- trimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the original publisher’s slipcase scribed by him: “Mavis from AR 15.3.35”. (with hand-numbered label on top edge). Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustra- Latimore & Haskell p. 68; Riall, p. 177. tions in the text, by Rackham. Very slightly bump to foot of spine. An £2,000 [113271] excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 21 of 525 copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 68; Riall p. 177. £3,000 [113249]

98 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales . . . London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932 Small quarto. Original terracotta-coloured cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edge brown, pink and white pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, 98

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99 pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket and the publisher’s original pictorial box. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales . . . London: tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932 Box just lightly soiled (paper label partially torn), touch of soiling to Small quarto. Original terracotta-coloured cloth, titles and pictori- back panel of jacket. An excellent copy. al decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edge brown, pink and first american trade edition, first printing. white pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece Latimore & Haskell p. 68; Riall, p. 177. and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket only slightly soiled, old £875 [113269] tape repair to back panel. An excellent copy; loosely inserted is a bookseller’s promotional flyer for “The Best Books of the Season 1933–34” (issued by the publisher Peter Davies) and carrying a full-page colour illustration by Rackham. first trade edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 68; Riall, p. 177. £750 [113273]

100 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales . . . Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1932 Small quarto. Original terracotta-coloured cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edges gilt, pink and white 100

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101 watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham”), ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Illustrated by showing one of the goblins shouldering a basket of fruit in the company of a rodent and a large-billed bird. Although un- Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933 marked as such, this first copy was Harrap’s own retained copy. Octavo (230 x 140 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green Latimore & Haskell p. 69; Riall p. 179. morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and banded spine, gilt panel on sides comprising a single fillet at the sides and a roll tool top £16,500 [112901] and bottom, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks), with the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered paper label). Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 410 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a full-page original pen-and-ink and

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102 103 ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market . . . Philadelphia: J. B. RACKHAM, Arthur. Original preliminary drawing: Lippincott Co., [1933] “‘Lay!’ roared the giant, and the hen laid immediately an Octavo. Original red cloth, colour illustration pasted to front cover, il- egg of solid gold.” London: [1933] lustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 3 Image size: 230 x 170 mm. Ink on artist board, colour wash toned. colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. In the lightly soiled dust jacket. An excellent copy. An original drawing in ink that appeared in print as a full-page illustration to “Jack and the Beanstalk” in The Arthur Rackham first american trade edition, first printing. Fairy Book. This version very closely resembles the published Latimore & Haskell p. 69., Riall, p. 179. version, except that in the final version Rackham has redrawn £200 [113263] Jack’s mother’s face a little younger and with a higher mob cap. £3,750 [113428]

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104 dedicatee being George Steward Harrap, eldest of the four chil- The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites dren of the publisher George Harrap. with New Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, Latimore & Haskell p. 69; Riall p. 182. 1933 £20,000 [112895] Octavo (226 x 149 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelled spine, concentric gilt panels on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). With the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine lightly sunned. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 460 copies signed by the artist, this one of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing, showing Hansel and Gretel being greeted by the Witch at the door of her gingerbread cottage. In addition, this copy includes, on the limitation leaf, a pen-and-ink thumbnail self-portrait by Rackham (signed “AR”) of himself doffing his top hat to the inscription “To G.S.H. ‘Salaam’”: the 104

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105 ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated Christmas 1935, jacket with vertical creases to both panels and spine, short split at head The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book . . . London: George G. of spine, binding spine lightly sunned. A very good copy. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933 first trade edition, first impression. Octavo. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine gilt, front cover Latimore & Haskell p. 69., Riall p. 182. lettered in gilt within three-line gilt border, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, £750 [113201] black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Light bump to lower front corner; issued with a publisher’s slipcase, not present here 107 but an excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 347 of 460 copies signed by the artist. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book . . . London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933 Latimore & Haskell p. 69; Riall p. 182. Octavo. Original terracotta-coloured cloth, titles to spine and front board £1,350 [113199] black, pictorial images stamped to spine and front board black and tan, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour 106 plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket spine toned and with small hole, old tape repairs on verso, spine of binding rolled, The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book . . . London: George G. neat presentation inscription on front pastedown, A very good copy. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933 first trade edition, in the later issue dust jacket, a cheaper Octavo. Original terracotta-coloured cloth, titles to spine and front design priced 5/- net, reduced from the original price of 8/6. In cover black, pictorial images stamped to spine and front cover black other respects the book is identical. and tan, top edge brown, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket priced 8/6 net on the front flap. Colour frontispiece and 7 col- Latimore & Haskell p. 69., Riall p. 182. our plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Neat £375 [113197]

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108 109 BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin . . . Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1934 Co. Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Original red cloth, coloured plate pasted to front cover, il- Octavo (229 x 137 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green lustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 3 morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and banded spine, gilt panel on sides comprising a single fillet at the sides and a roll tool top and bottom, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binders blanks), with the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered paper label). Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Slipcase label starting to lift a little. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 460 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a striking full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham”), showing the Pied Piper leading a boy out of Hamelin. Although unmarked as such, this first copy was Harrap’s own retained copy.

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110 110 coloured plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned In the lightly toned dust jacket. An excellent copy. luxury binding and including a full-page original pen-and-ink first u.s. trade edition, first printing. and watercolour drawing, signed and dated by the artist, show- Latimore & Haskell p. 71; Riall p. 186. ing a seated elderly man reading a hair-raising story, while his black cat spits at the Devil, who emerges from behind the £250 [113190] armchair. Latimore & Haskell pp. 72–73; Riall, p. 189. 110 POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. £32,500 [112910] Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935 Quarto (262 x 186 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelled spine, single-line gilt lozenge on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, three-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). With the publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Slight signs of wear at extremities of joints. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 3 of 460 copies signed by the artist. This is one of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher 110

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111 POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination . . . London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935 Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decorations to front cover and spine gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Light peripheral soiling. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 321 of 460 copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 72-73; Riall p. 189 £2,250 [113165] 111

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112 113 POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination . . . POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination . . . London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935 London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935 Quarto. Publisher’s green morocco, titles and decoration to spine and Quarto. Original dark grey cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Colour frontispiece front cover gilt, top edge dark grey, pictorial endpapers. With the dust and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white il- jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue lustrations in the text, by Rackham. An excellent copy. guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket first trade edition, in the publisher’s special spine toned, slightly rubbed and nicked at extremities, covers a little splayed. An excellent copy in a particularly well preserved example of binding. the jacket. Riall p. 189 first trade edition, first impression. £650 [113171] Latimore & Haskell p. 72-73; Riall p. 189 £750 [113167]

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114 115 IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt . . . London: George G. Harrap & by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1936 Co Ltd, 1936 Quarto (265 x 189 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green Quarto. Original vellum, gilt lettered and decorated spine and front morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelled spine, cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the single-line gilt panel on sides with gilt corner ornaments from de- publisher’s card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour fron- signs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt tispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with cap- turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound tioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- in after binder’s blanks). With the publisher’s card slipcase. Colour ham. Slipcase toned at extremities. An excellent copy. frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with deluxe edition, number 250 of 460 numbered copies signed captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by by the artist. Rackham. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1 of 460 copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 74; Riall p. 192 This is the first of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher £1,850 [113157] from the total edition, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated by the artist, showing Peer Gynt in a mountain landscape with crouching figures and anthropomorphic trees. Riall, p. 177. £20,000 [112908]

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116 117 IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt . . . London: George G. Harrap & IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt . . . Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co Ltd, 1936 Co, [1936] Quarto. Original russet cloth, gilt lettered and decorated spine and Small quarto, pp. 30. Original russet cloth, gilt lettered and decorat- front cover, top edge dark red, pictorial endpapers. With the dust ed on front cover, back cover showing a sample of the spine for the jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue trade edition (divided vertically with two blind rules, gilt lettered and guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Jacket decorated), top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and one spine toned and chipped at head, a few other nicks and chips, covers coloured plate with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustra- slightly splayed. A very good copy. tions in the text, by Rackham. Light soiling to covers (light pencilling first trade edition, first impression. on front cover: illegible but possibly a publisher’s or salesman’s note), a couple of very slight smudges to title page. A very good copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 74; Riall p. 192 uncommon salesman’s sample, or “blad” (from book/ £300 [113159] basic layout and design), used as pre-publication sales material for forthcoming books, in this case the American edition of Peer Gynt published by Lippincott. These gave the prospective buyer an idea of the style of binding, endpapers used, the type of illustration, and quality of presswork. £375 [113160]

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118 washerwoman, red edges, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket and the original slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Signs of handling to an Introduction by A. A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur slipcase, spine of price-clipped jacket toned and slightly marked, short Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940 closed-tear to front panel, neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Quarto. Original pale yellow buckram spine lettered in gilt, patterned covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the publisher’s green first trade edition, first printing. “This edition is the first card slipcase, gilt lettered spine (edition number in pencil). Colour appearance of the 14 line drawings, which were not included in frontispiece and 15 colour plates by Rackham mounted on heavy off- the limited edition designed by Bruce Rogers” (Riall). white paper. Slipcase a little chipped, spine of binding evenly toned. Riall p. 197. An excellent copy. deluxe edition, number 1,578 of 2,020 numbered copies £375 [113179] signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Riall p. 197. £950 [113186]

119 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. New York: The Heritage Press, 1940 Octavo. Original red buckram spine lettered in yellow, blue cloth sides, front cover with large stamp blocked in yellow of Toad as the 119

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120 121 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows . . . GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows . . . London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950 London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1951 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge green. With Quarto. Original white sheep, titles to spine gilt, top edges gilt, oth- the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and ers untrimmed. With the original slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Closed tear at foot of back colour plates by Rackham mounted on the same paper as letterpress. panel of jacket, front panel creased, spine of binding slightly rolled. A Signs of handling to slipcase (one corner bumped). An excellent copy. very good copy. deluxe edition, number 165 of 500 copies; the 100th edition first british trade edition, the stated 97th edition; orig- of Grahame’s timeless classic, published in a format even more inally published in 1940 by the Limited Editions Club in New luxurious than the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940. York. Riall p. 200. Riall p. 199. £2,250 [113184] £275 [113180]

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122 RHODES, Thomas. To the Other Side. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham & Alfred Bryan. And Maps. London: George Philip & Son, 1893 Quarto. Original brown cloth, front cover with blind ruled panels enclosing a mounted chromolithographic illustration of the Globe turned to show the Atlantic and the locations of Liverpool and Queen- stown on the British side, and New York and Chicago on the American 122 side, American flag to the top left-hand corner, inset ship portrait of the White Star liner Majestic to lower left; rear cover with blind panels and “Pear’s Soap” blocked in gilt at centre. Housed in a russet cloth folding box. Numerous illustrations to the text, some full-page, many signed “A. Rackham” or with his “AR” monogram. A touch of rubbing and bumping to ends of spines and corners. An excellent copy. first edition, rackham’s own copy of his first book, signed and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper, “This is the first book that came out with my illustrations”. The cloth format was published in March 1893, priced two shillings, at the same time as the edition in wrappers, priced one shilling. Laid in is a two-page autograph letter from Rackham on his Stilegate letterhead to the bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller John Carter, dated 25 January 1936: “I’m afraid that I don’t know where you’ll find ‘To the Other Side’. Since [Eric] Osborne [of booksellers Dawsons of Pall Mall] discovered two in my pos- session & sold them for me, I have discovered one belonging to my brother – & have just sold it for him. But no-one seems to know of the existence of any others. Osborne went to the publishers (Phillips – the map people) & they couldn’t even find out that they had ever ‘published’ such a book – if ‘publication’ it can be called. The ‘author’, also, told Osborne he had no copy & knew of none. I expect that very few copies escaped the waste- paper basket . . . ” Also laid in is a subsequent letter of 20 February the same year on the stationery of Charles Scribner’s Sons, for whom 122 Carter worked as European Agent, from Helen Clampitt to a Mrs Barnum explaining that Carter had been trying to obtain another copy of the book and had written to Rackham: “This is his reply, and I thought it might be good fun for you to stick it in the book.” Published by the map and guide-book publishers George Philip & Son, To the Other Side was conceived as a promotional device to encourage the English public to experiment with trans- atlantic travel at the time of the Chicago Exhibition. Rhodes is probably best known as the editor of Rhodes’s Steamship Guide. The book is illustrated with drawings in black and white, mostly from photographs. Copac records a single copy at Oxford, none in BL; OCLC adds just three copies, Columbia University, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, and the University of Louisville. Latimore & Haskell, p. 1; Riall, p.1 £19,500 [112937]

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123 125 HOPE, Anthony. The Dolly Dialogues. Reprinted from BERLYN, Annie. Sunrise-Land. Rambles in Eastern the Westminster Gazette. London: Westminster Gazette, 1894 England. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894 Octavo. Original light yellow pictorial wrappers printed in blue. Octavo. Original glazed pictorial boards with a colour image of a man Housed in a blue quarter morocco solander box. Frontispiece and 3 sitting on a rock by the sea on the front cover, printed pictorial covers, black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Small bookplate of titles in red and black to spine and front cover, rear cover with colour the American collector Carroll Atwood Wilson (1886–1947) laid in. advert, printed adverts on endpapers and endleaves, numbered vi at Spine defective at ends with some loss of spine lettering, rear cover front and [vii–xxiv] at rear (2 endleaves at front, 8 at rear). 71 vignette detached, paper restoration to upper outer corner of rear cover and in illustrations by Rackham, as well as contributions by other artists. two places at inside edge, some finger-soiling, contents toned with oc- A little wear to extremities, superficial cracking to front joint, some casional spotting. A good copy. browning to free endpapers, a very good copy. first edition, first issue, of the first book to be wholly illus- first cheaper edition, with a different cover design to the trated by Rackham. cloth edition but with the same title page, illustrations, and Latimore & Haskell, p. 2; Riall, p. 2 date, and presumably published at the same time. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 3–4; Riall, p. 6 £350 [112940] £150 [112947] 124 BERLYN, Annie. Sunrise-Land. Rambles in Eastern England. By Mrs. Alfred Berlyn, (“Vera”) Author of “Vera in Poppyland,” etc., etc. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894 Octavo. Original grey cloth, front cover with a colour image of a sunrise over a small island, titles in red and black to front cover and spine, publisher’s device stamped in blind on rear cover, printed adverts on endpapers and endleaves, numbered vi at front and [vii–xxiv] at rear (2 endleaves at front, 8 at rear). 71 vignette illustrations by Rackham, as well as contributions by other artists. One small area of cockling to the front cover, extremities lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. first edition, in the cloth binding and with the Great Eastern Railway timetable also dated 1894 Riall notes a later edition with a binding of light blue cloth, the timetable dated 1898, and the device on the rear cover in black. The cloth colour of this first edition is described as grey by Latimore & Haskell and light mauve by Riall; they are presumably each describing the same colour. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 3–4; Riall, p. 6

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126 Modern Science and Theology (1877). Rackham’s single illustration, PEATON, Arthur. Pictures of East Coast Health Resorts. entitled “When Augur Meets Augur”, shows Annie Besant and William Quan Judge battling fellow theosophist Colonel Henry London: Jarrold & Sons, [1901] Steel Olcott on a music hall stage. Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, pic- Riall p. 7. torial floral image blocked in gilt to front cover, marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations in text by various artists, of which 14 are £150 [113282] by Arthur Rackham. A few pages with some soiling smudge marks, bookplates of A. T. Copsey and Suffolk Bibliography, rubbing to cor- 128 ners and ends of spine, light soiling to covers. A very good copy. first edition, first impression. The Rackham illustrations CALVERT, Walter. Souvenir of Sir Henry Irving. London: had all previously appeared in Sunrise-Land (see previous items). Henry J. Drane, [1895]; [bound after:] — Souvenir of Miss Ellen Terry. London: Henry J. Drane, [1897] Riall, p. 6. 2 works bound in one, octavo. Contemporary green morocco grain £500 [113315] cloth, title to spine gilt, red speckled edges. Half-tone and line illustrations throughout. Short split at head of front joint, extremities of 127 spine chipped, a few marks to sides, neat ownership inscriptions on GARRETT, Edmund. Isis Very Much Unveiled, Being the front endpapers, inked annotations at foot of title page to the second work. A good copy. Story of the Great Mahatma Hoax. Told from Sources first editions. Rackham contributed one full-page half-tone mainly Theosophical. London: Westminster Gazette, [c.1894] illustration of Sir Henry Irving, captioned “As Corporal Gregory [Bound with two offprints from the Westminster Gazette:] Brewster in ‘A Story of Waterloo’”, at p. 43 The Theosophical Society and the Westminster Gazette Latimore & Haskell p. 6-7; Riall p. 8. [and] Should Mr Judge Resign? Speeches by Annie Besant £150 [113317] and Bertram Keightley. Octavo. Contemporary purple morocco-grain cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down and relabelled to style, red speckled edges, pale salmon pink-coloured endpapers. 3 portraits from photographs (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Colonel Olcott), illustrations in the text, one plate by Arthur Rackham. Small ownership stamp (margin of preliminary blank and frontispiece) of “D. J. Parker” (a Mrs D. J. Park- er is recorded as being a member of the Theosophical Society); glue residue causing pale staining to endpapers, corners bumped, covers patchily faded. A very good copy. first edition, scarce; the Manchester University copy appears to be the only one on Copac to have a matching colla- tion of pp. 119 (other copies and editions call for a longer ex- tent, implying later editions). The title is a play on Madame Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and 128

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129 130 [SHELLEY, Henry C.] Homes and Haunts of Thomas HENLEY, W. E. (ed.) A London Garland. Selected from Carlyle. London: Westminster Gazette, 1895 Five Centuries of English Verse. With Pictures by Members Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. Half- of the Society of Illustrators. London & New York: Macmillan tone and line illustrations throughout. Spine faded, and slightly frayed and Company, 1895 at head, sides lightly rubbed. A good copy. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, rose de- first edition; with a signed contribution by Rackham at sign stamped in pink to front cover, illustrated endpapers, all edges p. 128: an illustration of the kitchen at Carlyle’s home at Cheyne gilt. Without the dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Frontispiece, 3 Walk, Chelsea. “There may be other work of his that is not plates, illustrations in the text by various artists, including full page il- signed” (Latimore & Haskell). lustration by Arthur Rackham. Board edges a little rubbed, a very good copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 6; Riall p. 9. deluxe edition; there was also a trade edition in cream cloth. £100 [113216] A luxurious anthology, extensively illustrated, with three original etchings on thick wove paper. Rackham’s contribution is a full-page illustration on page 104 to “A Ballad of Guy Fawkes”. Other artists represented include Cecil Aldin, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Joseph Pennell, and Jack B. Yeats. Latimore & Haskell p. 6; Riall p. 10. £150 [112950]

131 IRVING, Washington. Van Tassel Edition. The Sketch- Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, front covers and spines stamped in gilt with an elaborate design, the front covers with a white oval title label in the centre, white endpapers, gilt top edge. With the original maroon cloth dust jackets. Frontispiece and 3 plates by Arthur Rack- ham, with captioned tissue guards, also illustrated by other artists; text printed within colour floral wreath borders throughout. Tissue guards toned, with some offsetting, an excellent set in the jackets with a little wear to edges. van tassel edition, in the variant binding of dark blue cloth (there was also a white cloth binding). The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon represented Rackham’s first foray into limited edition publishing; the Holly Edition of The Sketch-Book had been issued 130

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132 133 134 the previous year in an edition of 1,000 numbered sets signed sunned, spines of bindings lightly toned and only a little frayed at foot. by the publishers. This edition contains an extra Rackham il- An excellent set. lustration that was not in the previous Holly and Westminster first trade edition. There was a deluxe issue on large paper editions. of 150 copies signed by the publishers. Latimore & Haskell p. 5; Riall p. 11. Latimore & Haskell p. 5-6; Riall p. 14. £200 [112946] £250 [113215]

132 134 WELLS, H. G. The Wonderful Visit. London: J. M. Dent & FITZGERALD, Shafto Justin Adair.The Zankiwank & the Co, 1895 Bletherwitch. With Pictures by Arthur Rackham. London: Octavo. Original red buckram, bevelled boards, titles to spine and front J. M. Dent & Co., 1896 cover in gilt, design to front cover by Arthur Rackham, top edge gilt, Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decorations to spine gilt, vi- others untrimmed. Housed in a custom-made black morocco-backed gnette to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Black and bookform case, slightly chipped at spine. Spine cocked and very lightly white line illustrations throughout by Rackham. Spine slightly rolled discoloured, board edges a little rubbed, occasional light spots to fore and lightly rubbed at extremities, neat contemporary ownership in- edge, internally clean. An excellent copy, rare in such good condition. scription on front free endpaper, scattered light foxing. A very good first edition of Wells’s satire inspired by the remark attribut- copy. ed to John Ruskin that if an angel were to visit late 19th-century first edition. The first book in which Arthur Rackham is Britain he would be immediately shot. Laid in are the publish- named as illustrator on the title page and the first to feature er’s slip giving selected press notices of The Time Machine, dated his trademark style of fantastical whimsy. “Here, in the imag- 25 September 1895, and an early 20th-century bookseller’s de- inative silhouettes of the attenuated, weirdly double-jointed scription of the book. The design to the front cover is the only ostrich-like figure of the Zankiwank, Arthur is finding a com- illustration and is designed by Rackham. mercial, even a career outlet, for the ‘fantastic and the imagina- £500 [88448] tive’ which had preoccupied him from an early age . . . here at last is the real Rackham breaking out” (James Hamilton, Arthur 133 Rackham: A Biography, 1990, p. 40). Latimore & Haskell p. 8; Riall p. 15. IRVING, Washington. Tales of a Traveller. Buckthorne Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895 £1,350 [113010] 2 volumes, octavo. Original white cloth over bevelled boards, front covers and spines stamped with an elaborate design in gilt and green, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, black coated endpapers. With the original dark red cloth dust jackets. Half-tone frontispieces and 23 plates (5 by Rackham) with captioned tissue guards, letterpress within decorative borders printed in grey and pale red. Jacket spines slightly

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135 136 IRVING, Washington. Bracebridge Hall, or The MERRIMAN, Henry Seton, & S. G. Tallentyre. The Humourists. Surrey Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Money-Spinner and Other Character Notes. With Twelve 1896 Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Smith, Elder & 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, spines and Co., 1896 front covers lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, dark Half-tone frontispieces and 26 plates by various artist, decorative ini- chocolate-brown coated endpapers. Half-tone frontispiece and 11 tials throughout, letterpress within green ornamental borders. Spines plates by Rackham. Inner joints cracked, spine a little rubbed and a little rolled, some corners bumped, a few marks to covers (small bumped at head, a few shallow indentations at foot of front cover. A white blemish at top corner of volume II). A good set, bright and clean. good bright copy, with the terminal advertisement leaf. first trade edition. There was also a deluxe issue on large first edition. paper, 100 copies signed by the publishers. Rackham contribut- Latimore & Haskell p. 9; Riall p. 16; Sadleir 1723; Wolff 4768. ed five illustrations. Latimore & Haskell, p. 7; Riall p. 16. £225 [113007]

£200 [113012] 137 [FRIEDERICHS, Hulda.] In the Evening of His Days. A study of Mr. Gladstone in retirement, with some account of St. Deiniol’s Library and Hostel. London: Westminster Gazette, 1896

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. Half-tone 140 and line illustrations throughout. Spine sunned and a little rolled. A good copy. BROWNE, Maggie. Two Old Ladies Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Cat. The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy first edition. Rackham contributed ten illustrations. and Tue. With Coloured Plates and Other Illustrations Latimore & Haskell p. 7; Riall p. 18. by Arthur Rackham. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and £150 [113019] Company, Limited, 1897 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, large pictorial gilt block 138 to front cover, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece DAWE, Carlton. Captain Castle. A Tale of the China Seas. and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897 ham. Spine rolled and lightly sunned, pale foxing. A very good copy, with the publisher’s 16pp. catalogue at the end dated “6G-1097”. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Half- first edition. The first book with colour illustrations by tone frontispiece by Rackham. Spine sunned and slightly rolled, touch Rackham. It was issued in three bindings: blue, red or green of foxing to top edge, neat inscription to front free endpaper (W. H. Smith’s embossed stamp on same leaf ). A very good copy, with the cloth. 8pp. of terminal advertisements. Latimore & Haskell p. 9-10; Riall p. 21. first edition. £900 [113014] Latimore & Haskell p. 10; Riall p. 19. £110 [113018] 141 [Another copy, red cloth.] 139 Original red cloth, otherwise as above, with the same publisher’s cata- MERRIMAN, Henry Seton. The Grey Lady. A New Edition logue. Spine rolled and lightly sunned, prize label on front free endpa- with Twelve Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: per (dated 1898), scattered pale foxing. A very good copy. Smith, Elder & Co., 1897 £900 [113015] Octavo. Original grey-blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, blind floral motif on front cover, slate-green coated endpapers, un- 142 trimmed. Half-tone frontispiece and 11 plates by Rackham. Spine [Another copy, green cloth.] rolled, one or two light marks to binding. An excellent copy, with the Original green cloth, otherwise as above, with the same publisher’s terminal advertisement leaf. catalogue. Spine slightly rolled, ownership inscription on verso of first edition thus, with Rackham’s illustrations; originally front free endpaper, scattered pale foxing. A very good copy. published in 1895. £900 [113016] Latimore & Haskell p. 8-9; Riall p. 20; Sadleir 1719a. £300 [113017]

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143 145 LEVER, Charles. Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon. [BARHAM, Richard Harris.] The Ingoldsby Legends, or With Sixteen Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Mirth & Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Service & Paton, 1897 J. M. Dent & Co., 1898 Octavo. Original maroon cloth, pictorial design and titles stamped in Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine gilt to spine and front cover, untrimmed. Frontispiece and 15 plates of and covers gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, green pictorial end- line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial bookplate on rear paste- papers. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with tissue guards, down, faded ownership inscription to half-title; spine rolled. A very black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Bookplate of good copy. James and Laura E. Stuart; closed-tear at fore-edge of front free endpa- first edition illustrated by Rackham. per, touch of foxing to title page. An excellent copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 10; Riall p. 22. first rackham edition. Riall, p. 170. £110 [113310] £250 [112923] 144 BURNEY, Frances. Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George Newnes Ltd, 1898 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and decoration to front cover stamped in maroon, top edge gilt, black endpapers renewed. Frontispiece and 15 full-page line illustrations by Rackham. Spine sunned, binding rubbed at extremities. A good copy. first edition, first issue, with the single leaf of publisher’s terminal advertisements. Latimore & Haskell pp. 10-11; Riall p. 25. £110 [113054]

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146 147 TATE, William J. East Coast Scenery. Rambles through TATE, William J. East Coast Scenery . . . London: Jarrold & Towns and Villages; Nutting, Blackberrying, and Sons, 1899 Mushrooming; Sea Fishing, Wild-fowl Shooting, etc. Octavo. Original red and blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover London: Jarrold & Sons, 1899 black, small monochrome plate mounted on front cover, patterned endpapers. Monochrome line drawings and half-tone illustrations Octavo. Original printed pictorial pale green boards. Monochrome from photographs throughout. Binding a little soiled, a few marks, line drawings and half-tone illustrations from photographs through- small abrasion to spine; with the publisher’s 10pp. catalogue at the out. Binding somewhat used, spine rubbed and chipped at extremities, end. some wear to corners, but sound and internally clean. first edition. Rackham contributed seven illustrations. This first edition, in a binding not recorded by Riall. issue has the publisher’s 12-page catalogue at the end – in- Riall p. 27. Not in Latimore & Haskell. cluding one leaf (headed “A Day on the Broads” on recto and £200 [113065] “Visitors to the Eastern Counties” on verso) that does not ap- pear in the following item. 148 Riall p. 27. Not in Latimore & Haskell. LINGWOOD, Lemmon. The Illustrated Guide to £250 [113064] Sheringham. In Addition to several Illustrations of the Places of Interest, and a large amount of General Information, this Guide contains Special Descriptive Chapter on “The Sea, Cliffs, Park, Hall, Woods, and Pretty Corner.” London: Jarrold & Sons, [c.1899] Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black and red, stapled as issued. Monochrome line drawings and half-tone illustrations from photographs throughout. Wrappers somewhat soiled, chipped, stained and creased (portion torn from front fore-corner). first edition. Rackham contributed four line illustrations. This sixpenny guide to the delights of Sheringham, North Norfolk (the Pearl of East Anglia), is undated but has several of the same advertisements as East Coast Scenery, published by the same firm in 1899 (see previous items). Not in Riall. £150 [113280]

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149 9 separately issued works, octavo. Original vellum over bevelled boards, covers and spines decoratively blocked in gold, pictorial end- The Haddon Hall Library, edited by the Marquess of papers, red silk bookmarks, untrimmed edges. Housed individually in Granby and Mr. George A. B. Dewar [series title]. London: cream cloth slipcases. Frontispieces and plates with captioned tissue J. M. Dent & Co., 1899–1903 guards. Cover designs, pictorial endpapers, chapter heads and tailpieces by Arthur Rackham. A few marks to vellum covers, occasional light foxing, an excellent set. deluxe editions, each one of 150 copies printed on handmade paper, comprising the complete set of the Haddon Hall Library series. The set comprises: 1. DEWAR, George A. B. Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands (1899), number 76 of 150 copies; 2. GREY, Sir Edward. Fly Fishing (1899) number 96 of 150 copies; 3. HOLE, S. Reynolds. Our Gardens (1899), number 58 of 150 copies, additionally signed by the author; 4. NISBET, John. Our Forests and Woodlands (1900), number 4 of 150 copies; 5. PAGET, J. Otho. Hunting (1900), number 4 of 150 copies; 6. SELOUS, Edward. Bird Watching (1901), number 4 of 150 149 copies;

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7. LYTTLETON, the Hon. R. H. Out-Door Games, Cricket & 152 Golf (1901), number 4 of 150 copies; LAMB, Charles & Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. With 8. SHAND, Alexander Innes. Shooting (1902), one of 150 cop- Twelve Illustrations by A. Rackham. London: J. M. Dent & ies, the number erased; Company, 1899 9. TOD, W. M. Farming. With illustrations by Lucy Kemp- Small octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt, Welch (1903), number 4 of 150 copies. blindstamp to front cover, gilt top edge others untrimmed. Coloured Latimore & Haskell p. 96; Riall p. 233. frontispiece, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Pages toned, bumping to corners, light rubbing to ends of spine and £4,500 [112913] along spine edge. A very good copy. first edition featuring Rackham’s illustrations, in the variant 150 blue cloth binding; the other issue was in blue leather. This title HOLE, S. Reynolds. Our Gardens. London: J. M. Dent & Co., would be reprinted in 1909 with added illustrations (see item 14 1899 above). From the series of Temple Classics for Young People. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front Latimore & Haskell p. 12; Riall p. 32. board gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Co- lour frontispiece and 10 plates with plain tissue guards. Cover design, £110 [113060] pictorial endpapers, chapter headings and tailpieces by Arthur Rack- ham. An excellent copy, internally clean, the cloth fresh and bright. 153 first trade edition; see previous item for the deluxe. HERBERTSON, Agnes Grozier. The Bee-Blowaways. Latimore & Haskell p. 14; Riall p. 31. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1900] £300 [113059] Small quarto. Original green covers, illustrated plate printed and red and white pasted to front cover. Housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. 14 black and white illustrations on different coloured backgrounds by 151 Arthur Rackham. Ownership signature to front pastedown “This Book MARTINEAU, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord. With Twelve Belongs To”, one illustration neatly coloured in, occasional spotting Illustrations by A. Rackham. London: J. M. Dent & Company, to pages, lower half of spine lacking with significant chip to top end of spine, rubbing to corners, faint soiling to rear cover. A good copy. 1899 first edition, first impression. A very uncommon title, with Small octavo. Original blue limp leather, titles and decoration to spine OCLC locating only three copies held institutionally at the gilt, gilt image blocked to front cover, red silk bookmark, top edge British Library, Cambridge University and the University of gilt. Coloured frontispiece, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Inscription to front pastedown, spine faded, light rubbing Texas. to corners and ends of spine. A very good copy. Riall, p. 34 Not in Latimore & Haskell. first edition featuring Rackham’s illustrations, this copy in £500 [113056] the deluxe leather binding; it was also issued in blue cloth. Latimore & Haskell p. 12; Riall p. 30. £110 [113061]

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154 is unrecorded by the bibliographies, although Riall notes later is- GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Fairy Tales of the Brothers sues with the imprint of either Constable or Selfridge & Co. Grimm. A New Translation by Mrs Edgar Lucas. With Latimore & Haskell p. 14–15; Riall, p. 39. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Freemantle & Co., £1,500 [113057] [1900] Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece and title page, full-page and black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Neat pencil annotations to List of Illustrations, scattered foxing. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression; issued in both blue and multicoloured pictorial cloth (see next item). Latimore & Haskell p. 14-15; Riall, p. 39. £2,000 [112926]

155 GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm . . . London: [Freemantle and Co.?, 1900?] Octavo. Original multicoloured pictorial tan cloth, top edge red, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece and title page, monochrome full-page illustrations and line drawings in the text, by Rackham. Fox- ing to edges of book block and scattered internally. An excellent copy. first edition, presumably a later issue: the title page is identical to that of the Freemantle & Co edition of 1900 (see previous item) but has no imprint in the cartouche, the front endpapers are bound upside down, and the half-title is bound-in after the title page. This 155

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156 158 GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. KENYON, C. R. The Argonauts of the Amazon. With Six Carefully Chosen from the Collection by the Brothers Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London and Edinburgh: W. Grimm. With Twelve Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. and R. Chambers, Limited, 1901 London: S. W. Partridge & Co. Ltd., [c.1904] Octavo. Original green pictorial cloth, titles to spine and front cover Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, decoration to spine and gilt, pictorial blocking to spine and front cover, grey-brown coated front cover in tan and black. Frontispiece and 11 monochrome plates endpapers. Half-tone frontispiece and 5 plates by Rackham. Prize label by Rackham. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper (dated (dated 1912); spine slightly rolled, binding lightly rubbed and a little 1914); spine rolled, binding a little shaken, paper toned. A good copy, shaken, scattered foxing. A very good copy, with the 4pp. of publisher’s with the publisher’s 32pp. catalogue at the end. terminal advertisements. first expurgated edition, an abridged edition of the 1900 first edition, first impression. This green binding with grey- title; this copy in a binding unrecorded by Riall. brown endpapers and four pages of publisher’s terminal advertisements not recorded by either Latimore & Haskell or Riall, Riall, p. 39–40. who note bindings of light blue and coral-pink cloth with 32pp. £250 [113055] of advertisements at the end. Latimore & Haskell p. 16; Riall p. 42. 157 £110 [113023] Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm. Illustrated by H. Cole, A. Garth Jones, H. R. Millar, A. Rackham, and R. Savage. London: George Newnes Ltd, 1901 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt and green, all edges gilt, pale green pictorial endpapers. Colour title page and frontispiece, monochrome full-page and line drawings in the text by various artist. Embossed stamp of W. H. Smith on front free endpaper, bookplate of Brian Stilwell on verso. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression. Rackham contributed five illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p. 17; Riall p. 41. £250 [113020]

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159 161 GRIFFITHS, Arthur. Mysteries of Police and Crime. Faithful Friends. Pictures and Stories for Little Folk. Profusely Illustrated. In Three Volumes. Special edition. London: Blackie & Son Limited, [1902] London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Quarto. Original pictorial blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in Limited, [1901] white, pictorial illustration stamped to front cover in white and yellow, grey endpapers, all edges gilt. Two-toned illustrations by various art- 3 volumes, quarto. Original imitation leather covers, gilt titles and ists in the text, of which 6 are contributions by Rackham. Prize label to decoration to spines, plain endpapers. Various illustrations through- front free endpaper, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, rubbing to out, of which 14 black and white illustrations are by Arthur Rackham. corners and ends of spine. An excellent copy. Spines rolled, corners and ends of spine bumped, light soiling to covers, pages toned. A very good set. first edition, first impression. special edition for subscribers. Originally published in Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall p. 63. 1898 in two volumes without illustrations. Some of the chap- £150 [113192] ters included are “The Penge Case”, “Illicit Diamond Buying”, “A Mysterious Murder”, and “The Stepney Murder”. Rackham’s drawings first appeared in magazine form, in several parts, 162 bound in wrappers, in 1901 and 1902. A few of these drawings HENTY, G. A., & others. Brains and Bravery. Eight had previously appeared in Cassell’s Magazine in 1896. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: W. & R. Chambers, Latimore & Haskell p. 17; Riall p. 46. Limited, 1903 £300 [113032] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in blind to gilt background, pictorial image stamped to front cover, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and 7 half-tone plates by Arthur Rackham. Multiple 160 large inscriptions one in marker to half-title, occasional spotting to BLEACKLEY, Horace. More Tales of the Stumps. pages, spine rolled, soiling to covers, a touch of rubbing to illustration Illustrated by ‘Rip’ and Arthur Rackham. London: Ward, at front cover. A very good copy. Lock & Co., Limited, 1902 first edition, first impression, in a variant green cloth binding but matching all other points as called for in Haskell and Octavo. Original pictorial blue cloth, title to spine gilt and white to Riall. A collection of 14 tales in which young men exhibit “brains front cover, pictorial images stamped to front cover and spine in white, brown and black, black endpapers. 11 plates from line drawings by Ar- and bravery.” The tales are by G. A. Henty, Guy Boothby, L. T. thur Rackham, text illustrations by “Rip”. Spine lightly sunned, touch Meade & Prof. Robert K. Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine of wear to extremities. A very good copy. Tynan, H. A. Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. first edition, first impression. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall. Latimore & Haskell p. 20; Riall p. 49. Latimore & Haskell p. 18; Riall p. 47. £250 [113030] £750 [113028]

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163 Octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, title to spine red, title to front cover gilt, pictorial image to front cover blocked in gilt. 2 full page GREENE, The Hon. Mrs. The Grey House on the Hill. coloured drawings by Arthur Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers. An London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, excellent copy. [1903] second impression; first published in 1903. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front Riall p. 55. cover gilt, all edges gilt. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Pages with toning and light spotting, spine gently £375 [113141] rolled, corners a touched rubbed. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 21; Riall p. 51. £950 [113152]

164 SPIELMANN, Mrs M. H. Littledom Castle, and Other Tales. With a preface by M. H. Spielmann. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S., Kate Greenway, R.I., Hugh Thomson, R.I., Harry Furniss, C. Wilhelm, Madame Ronner, R.I., Rosie Pitman, Jessie M. King, and Phil May, R.I. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1903 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, black endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrations in the text by various artists with 12 contributions by Arthur Rackham. Front hinge cracked, spine rolled, bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners, wear to extremities. A good copy. first edition, first printing. Latimore & Haskell p. 20; Riall p. 52. £200 [113150]

165 BROWNE, Maggie, & Miranda Hill. The “Little Folks” Plays. Containing Cinderella, Rumplestiltzkin [sic] and Dummling, How to get up a Children’s Play. London, Paris,

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166 Octavo. Original pictorial blue cloth, titles to spine red on gilt background, titles to front cover gilt, pictorial image stamped to front cover DANA, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. and spine in blue, black and tan, red endpapers. Housed in a blue cloth Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London and Glasgow: Collins’ slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 5 colour illustrations by Rackham. Clear-Type Press, [1904] Inscription to verso of the half-title, spine faded and rolled. A very good copy. Octavo. Original pictorial red cloth, titles to spine in black on gilt background, pictorial images stamped to spine and front cover in black, first edition, first impression, one of the copies issued in blue and white. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates by Rackham. blue cloth. Pages toned with light spotting, sticker to front pastedown, a touch of Riall p. 59. rubbing to illustration to the front cover. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression. £500 [113084] Latimore & Haskell p. 23; Riall p. 57. 168 £475 [113086] [Another copy, red cloth.] 167 As previous item, except in red cloth. Several names to the half-title, embossed stamp to front endpaper, loss of paper to front pastedown, HARBOUR, Henry. Where Flies the Flag. With Six covers lightly bowed, touch of soiling to rear cover. Coloured Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London, £400 [113083] Glasgow, and New York: Collins’ Clear-Type Press, [1904] 169 HUNGERFORD, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Illustrated by A. Rackham. London: George Newnes Limited, [1904] Octavo. Original printed pictorial wrappers, advertisement endpapers. Housed in brown slipcase and matching chemise. Black and white illustrations by Rackham. Splitting along spine which has had tape put to ends of spines, else an excellent copy. first edition featuring Rackham’s illustrations, with correct issue point of the misspelling of Rackham’s name on the title page and correct number of ads. An extremely uncommon Rackham title that was not recorded in Latimore & Haskell. OCLC locates six institutional holdings (Cambridge University, Oxford University, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Centrale Bibliotheek, Bishop Grosseteste University, Erasmus University). Riall p. 60. £5,000 [113082] 167

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170 DRURY, W. P. The Peradventures of Private Pagett. With Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decorations to spine and front Eight Illustrations by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: cover stamped in black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 Chapman and Hall, Ld., 1904 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Extremities slightly rubbed, endpapers tanned, spotting to text. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 23; Riall p. 61. £500 [113161]

171 CHOLMONDELEY, Mary. Red Pottage. Illustrated by A. Rackham. London: George Newnes Limited, [1904] Octavo. Original printed pictorial wraps, advertisement endpapers. Housed in red quarter morocco solander box. 8 half-tone illustrations by Rackham. Toning to pages, chipping to ends of spine, chip to lower front edge. A very good copy. first edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 21-22; Riall p. 64. £2,500 [113185]

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172 174 BROWNE, Maggie. The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy HOLME, Charles (ed.) The ‘Old’ Water-Colour Society and Tue. With Coloured Plates and Other Illustrations 1804–1904. London, Paris, and New York: The Studio, 1905 by Arthur Rackham. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Large quarto. Original grey cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spine Cassell and Company, Limited, 1904 and covers gilt. 40 colour plates of which one is by Arthur Rackham. Spine and corners lightly rubbed, lower back corner slightly worn, Octavo. Original blue cloth, pictorial stamping in red to covers, gilt some staining to covers, dent to rear cover; occasional spotting and titles to spine. Colour frontispiece and 3 other colour plates, black and rubbing. A very good copy. white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Rubbing to corners and ends of spine, soiling to covers. A very good copy. first edition, first impression. first edition, first impression, under this title; originally Latimore & Haskell p. 24-25, 80; Riall p. 68. published in 1897 as Two Old Ladies Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom £125 [113318] Cat (see item 140 above). Latimore & Haskell p. 22; Riall p. 65. £275 [113294]

173 HUTTON, Edward (ed.) The Children’s Christmas Treasury of Things New and Old. With Many Coloured Illustrations and Numerous Drawings in the Text. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, [1905] Quarto. Original pictorial covers, titles to spine and front cover in blue, pictorial images stamped to spine and front cover in green, blue, red, orange, top edge gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations in the text by various artists, of which three are contributions by Arthur Rack- ham. Occasional spotting to pages, covers lightly soiled and rubbed, corners bumped. A very good copy. first edition, first impression. Rackham’s illustrations featured in this title first appeared in The Ingoldsby Legends in 1898 174 Riall p. 67. 175 £250 [113183] HAMILTON, Myra. Kingdoms Curious. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, H. R. Millar, and others. London: William Heinemann, 1905 Octavo. Original pictorial brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, image blocked to front cover in black and gilt, publisher’s logo blocked to rear cover in black. Black and white illustrations by various artists including

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H. R. Millar of which 6 are contributions by Rackham. Occasional There is no general title page: we have taken the title from the spotting to pages, front hinge weak, spine rolled, corners and ends of front cover. spine rubbed, spotting to spine, light soiling to covers. A good copy. Riall p. 201 under “Rides on Wheels”, with the suggested date c.1910; on stylistic first edition, first impression. grounds, it seems earlier. Not listed on Copac. Latimore & Haskell p. 25; Riall p. 71. £350 [113330] £150 [113213] 178 176 Punch, or the London Charivari. London: 1905–34 HAMER, S. H. The Little Folks Fairy Book. Illustrated. 12 numbers, folio. Wire-stitched in original wrappers printed in black, London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, last two numbers printed in black and red. Housed together in a bur- Limited, 1905 gundy cloth fleece-lined folding case. Illustrations throughout. Spine of 11 July 1928 number a little shaken, the condition generally excellent. Octavo. Original red cloth backed red paper covers, titles in black, colour illustration to front cover, black and white illustration to back A selection of numbers of Punch magazine, each with a contri- cover. Black and white reproduction from Peter Pan by Arthur Rack- bution by Rackham. The individual numbers are (vol. 129) no. ham, colour frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations 3339, 5 July 1905; no. 3347, 30 August 1905; no. 3348, 6 September by various artists. Spine a little bumped with a split in the cloth at the 1905; no. 3351, 27 September 1905; no. 3351, 11 October 1905; no. head, some surface wear covers, corners worn, endpapers tanned, wa- 3355, 25 October 1905; no. 3358, 15 November 1905; no. 3360, ter staining to lower pastedown. A very good copy. 29 November 1905; (vol. 130) no. 3365, 3 January 1906; no. 3371, first edition, first impression. 14 February 1906; (vol. 175) no. 4540, 11 July 1928; (vol. 176) no. £250 [113289] 4828, 3 January 1934. Riall pp. 228–9. 177 £120 [113326] Motoring in the Park. [No place: no publisher, c.1905] Quarto, in four parts. Original boards, front cover with pictorial design lettered in red and blue, rear cover plain blue paper, red cloth backstrip. Full-page illustration by Arthur Rackham printed in dark red only, numerous other illustrations by various artists, several in full colour. Ownership label to front free endpaper. Spine a little rubbed and bumped, corners worn, some surface damage to covers; endpapers tanned, some creasing, occasional spotting and the odd stain. A very good copy. A lively and colourful collection of children’s stories, verses and poems, containing “Rides on Wheels”, “Puff! Puff! Puff!”, “Christmas Time” and “Nursery Rhymes”. Rackham’s illustration in the first part is titled “Poor Granny”, showing an old lady in danger of being knocked down by a group of young cyclists. 178

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179 text by various artists. Occasional spotting to pages, bumping to corners and ends of spine, spine faded. A very good copy. The Children’s Hour. An Anthology of Poems, Stories, Sketches, Etc., By Leading Authors: Illustrated by the first edition, first impression. Chief Artists of the Day: Published in Aid of the Children’s Latimore & Haskell p. 30; Riall p. 76. Happy Evenings Association. Edited by Ralph Hall Caine, £125 [113170] Jun. London: George Newnes Limited, [1906] Octavo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, uncut edges. Frontispiece 182 and 6 other similar illustrations by various other artists of which one GATES, Eleanor. Good-Night (Buenas Noches). uncoloured plate is by Arthur Rackham. Some rubbing to extremities, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell corners lightly worn; occasional spotting and the odd stain. An excellent copy. & Co., [1907] first edition, first impression. Small quarto. Original grey pictorial cloth, titles to spine and front cover in white, decorations in white, green and black. Colour frontispiece Latimore & Haskell p. 28; Riall p. 73. and 4 colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Covers slightly rubbed, £75 [113312] small bump to lower cover, some light spotting, faded gift inscription and library stamp in blind to front free endpaper, but a very good copy of a scarce title. 180 first edition, first printing. The story first appeared in KIPLING, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. Illustrated by Scribner’s Magazine in February 1906. Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S. New York: Doubleday, Page & Latimore & Haskell p. 30; Riall p. 81. Company, 1906 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, im- £375 [113166] age blocked to front cover in black, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 3 illustrations by Arthur Rackham. An excellent copy. first american edition, first printing. The US edition was the only one to feature Rackham’s illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p. 28; Riall p. 75. £200 [113172]

181 TENNANT, Pamela. The Children and the Pictures. London: William Heinemann; Macmillan Company, New York, 1907 Square octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black, titles to front cover in gilt, image stamped to front cover in black, top edge red. Drawing on title page by Arthur Rackham, other illustrations in the 182

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183 185 GATES, Eleanor. Good-Night . . . New York: Thomas Y. The Land of Enchantment. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Crowell & Co., [1907] A.R.W.S. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907 Small quarto. Original brown cloth with paper covers, titles to spine Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pic- gilt, titles and decoration to front cover in brown. Frontispiece and 4 torial decoration to front cover gilt. With the dust jacket. Tinted fron- colour illustration by Arthur Rackham. Covers slightly rubbed, edges tispiece and 12 half-tone illustrations, line drawings with yellow back- bumped, but internally clean. A very good copy of a scarce title. grounds in the text, by Rackham. Some rubbing to extremities, mild first edition, presumably later issue, in a variant binding not bumping to head and tail of spine, some spotting to front cover, spine a little tanned, occasional spotting to endpaper. Jacket rubbed and recorded in the bibliographies. stained, with a 3 cm tear at the front and a fold to the middle. Book- Latimore & Haskell p. 30; Riall p. 81. plate pasted to front pastedown. An excellent copy in the fragile jacket. £250 [113168] first edition, first impression. The stories with the illustrations first appeared in the magazine Little Folks between 1896 184 and 1902. SAVORY, J. Harry. Auld Acquaintance. A Book for Friends Latimore & Haskell p. 29-30; Riall p. 84. and Remembrances. London: E. W. Savory, for J. M. Dent & £550 [113132] Co., 1907 Oblong quarto. Original coarse linen, two green cloth straps around spine, green tie strap at front, titles to front cover in black and orange, pictorial decoration in black, brown, red, white, blue, green and yellow, all edges green, marbled endpapers. Black and white illustration on front free endpaper and 2 other black and white illustrations by Ar- thur Rackham. Many other illustrations by various artists. Corners a little bumped, some ink spotting to front cover, spine tanned, front endpaper split at hinge, but holding, occasional spotting. Inscribed by various people with verses, poems, etc. first edition, first impression. This is an autograph album without text, intended for a child whose friends and family could write a favourite verse, poem, or quotation next to the numerous illustrations. Latimore & Haskell p. 31; Riall p. 82. £375 [113134]

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186 first trade edition, in a variant suede binding; the bibliog- BURNS, Robert. The Cotter’s Saturday Night. Frontispiece raphies mention only purple suede. by Arthur Rackham. London: James Hewetson and Son, [1908] Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 86. Square quarto. Publisher’s red suede, lettered in gilt, pictorial endpa- £325 [113123] pers. Housed in a custom made burgundy solander box by Zaehnsdorf. Green and white frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Covers and extrem- 189 ities slightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped, endpapers tanned and spotted. An excellent copy. SPIELMANN, Mrs. M. H. The Rainbow Book: Tales of deluxe edition, number 79 of 200 copies. The deluxe edition Fun and Fancy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hugh is not recorded in the bibliographies. Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rountree, C. Wilhelm. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909 Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 86 (trade editions only). Octavo. Publisher’s original pink coral cloth, titles to spine and front £375 [113129] cover gilt, elaborate decoration to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Housed in an orange red slipcase. Co- 187 lour frontispiece and 15 black and white plates and illustrations in BURNS, Robert. The Cotter’s Saturday Night . . . London: text, by Rackham. Numerous other illustrations by Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rountree and C. Wilhelm. James Hewetson and Son, [1908] Spine sunned and lightly bumped at top and bottom, corners lightly Small octavo. Original boards (Riall’s “imitation vellum”), titles and bumped, some very occasional spotting. With the author’s bookplate. decoration to spine and both covers in green. With the dust jacket. Pic- Very good. torial endpapers same as on covers and jacket. Green and white fron- first edition in book form, first impression. The stories and tispiece by Arthur Rackham. Some very mild rubbing to extremities, illustrations first appeared in the magazine Little Folks in 1905–6. jacket slightly creased. An excellent copy. Latimore & Haskell p. 35; Riall p. 95. first trade edition, first impression. Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 86. £100 [113113] £250 [113115] 190 HENTY, G. A. Gallant Deeds. With Illustrations by Arthur 188 Rackham, A.R.W.S. and W. Boucher. London: W. & R. BURNS, Robert. The Cotter’s Saturday Night . . . London: Chambers, Limited, 1909 James Hewetson and Son, [1908] Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark blue. Small octavo. Publisher’s original limp green suede, lettered in gilt, Black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham and W. Boucher, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a custom made orange solander box. frontispiece and one plate contributed by Rackham. Light soiling to Green and white frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Spine tanned and pages, spine toned, rubbing to corners and ends of spine. A good copy. rubbed, endpapers stained, contemporary gift inscription to front free A Chambers supplementary reader. endpaper. An excellent copy of a fragile production. £110 [113281]

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191 193 BROWNE, Maggie. The Book of Betty Barber. With HAYDON, A. L. Stories of King Arthur. With Four Illustrations Drawn by Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S., and Coloured Plates and other Illustrations by Arthur Coloured by Harry Rountree. London: Duckworth and Co., Rackham, A.R.W.S. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1910] 1910 Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black, Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, co- colour plate inlay to front cover, top edge gilt. Housed in the publish- lour plate inlay to front cover, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 3 er’s original pictorial box. Colour frontispiece and 5 colour plates, colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. A black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Ink ownership hint of rubbing to extremities, some occasional spotting. Gift inscrip- inscription to front free endpaper. Just a hint of rubbing to covers, end- tion to front pastedown, bookseller’s stamp in blind to front free endpapers tanned, occasional spotting to text. An excellent copy. paper. An excellent copy. first edition in book form of this story originally published first edition in book form, first impression. The stories first in the Little Folks magazine in 1900. appeared in the magazine Little Folks in 1902 and in Fairy Tales Old Latimore & Haskell p. 36; Riall p. 98. and New in 1905. Latimore & Haskell p. 36; Riall p. 99. £1,250 [113162] £110 [113118] 192 BROWNE, Maggie. The Book of Betty Barber . . . Boston: The Gorham Press for Richard G. Badger, [1910] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front cover in black, colour plate inlay to front cover, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in the publisher’s original pictorial box. Colour frontispiece and 5 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rack- ham. Just a hint of rubbing to extremities, some very mild spotting to the dust jacket, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy. first american edition in book form. Latimore & Haskell p. 36; Riall p. 98. £1,250 [113163]

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194 Small quarto. Original printed pictorial covers, blue cloth spine, advertisement to rear panel. Black and white illustrations in the text by The Greek Heroes. Stories Translated From Niebuhr with various artists, with single block colours, of which 17 are contributions Additions. With Four Coloured Plates and Numerous by Arthur Rackham. Christmas 1910 gift inscription to front free end- other Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S. London: paper, offsetting to endpapers, spotting to pages, hinges weak, cor- Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1910 ners rubbed, soiling to covers and spine, loss to paper advert to rear cover. A good copy. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark brown, colour illustration pasted to front cover. With the dustjacket. first edition thus, a collection of stories featuring the Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates, black and white illustrations in Rackham illustrated story, The Bee-Blowaways, which was first text, by Rackham. Covers gently bowed, endpapers and edges lightly published in 1900 (see item 153 above). browned. An excellent copy in a jacket with lightly sunned spine panel Not in Riall. and tears to front panel. Reprint of the 1903 edition. £150 [113214] Latimore & Haskell p. 36; Riall p. 100. 196 £110 [113295] Snowflake’s Picture Book. By Uncle Maurice. Author of “Playmates,” “Hide and Seek,” “Full of Fun,” etc. London: 195 S. W. Partridge & Co., Ltd., [c.1910] The Scrumshus Story-Book. With About One Hundred Small quarto. Original printed pictorial covers, titles to spine black, ti- and Eighty Colour Plates. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., tles to front cover in red, back cover with Cadbury Chocolate advertise- [c.1910] ment, advertisement endpapers. Colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations in the text by various artists, one story “Freddy’s Egg Tree” illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Prize bookplate to frontispiece verso. Corners and ends of spine rubbed. toning and light soiling to rear cover. A lovely copy. first edition, first impression. A picture book featuring Arthur Rackham and Louis Wain illustrations. Not in Riall. £150 [113221]

197 YATES, M. T. (ed.) The Temple Literary Readers Book 5. London: J. M. Dent & Co., [c.1910] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in brown. 15 colour illustrations, of which 2 by Rackham, and occasional black and white illustrations in text, of which 2 by Rackham. Spine slightly

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198 199 200, 201 darkened, cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, minor wear to corners. A 200 very good copy. Princess Mary’s Gift Book. All profits from sale of are given first edition of the fifth book in Dent’s School Series. With to The Queen’s Work for Women Fund, which is acting in four illustrations by Rackham for Harriet Martineau’s story Feats conjunction with The National Relief Fund. London, New on the Fjord. York, & Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, [1914] Not in Riall. Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark £90 [113298] green. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout which one colour plate and 5 drawings are by Arthur Rackham. inscription to front free 198 endpaper, offsetting to endpapers and to edges of a few pages, in the soiled dust jacket with chips to corners and ends of spine, spine for the Faithful Friends. Pictures and Stories for Little Folk. most part is detached, large crease and closed tear to rear panel, chip London: Blackie & Son Limited, [c.1910, perhaps 1912] to mid of rear panel. A good copy. Quarto. Original pictorial covers, red cloth spine, title to front cover first trade edition, first impression. in red. Two-toned illustrations by various artists in the text, of which 6 Latimore & Haskell p. 43; Riall p. 120. are contributions by Arthur Rackham. Bookplate to front pastedown, spotting to endpapers, a touch of soiling to endpapers. An excellent £150 [113122] copy. first edition thus. The title was originally published in 201 1902; however this edition is apparently the first with colour King Albert’s Book. A Tribute to the Belgian King and the illustrations. People from Representative Men and Women Throughout Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall p. 63. the World. London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The £150 [113195] Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1914 199 Quarto. Original vellum covers, titles and design to spine and front GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Kinder-Märchen. Mit 4 cover blocked in gilt, plain endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and farbigen und 115 schwarzen Bildern von Walter Crane, 16 coloured plates, one of which is by Arthur Rackham. Occasional spotting, offsetting to endpapers, covers bowed, toning to covers. A Jos. Hendel, Ludw. Richter, Herd. Flinzer, G. Mühlberg, very good copy. H. J. Ford und Anderen. Nuremberg: [printed by E. Nister, for] deluxe edition, this format not recorded in either of the bib- Theo. Stroefer, [c.1912] liographies. The book was published in aid of the Belgium fund. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in red and Not in Latimore & Haskell (p. 42) or Riall (p. 121). black. 4 colour plates and black and white illustrations in text by various artists, of which 14 are by Arthur Rackham. Gift inscription to £500 [113114] front endpaper dated 1912 Light toning to pages, rubbing to corners, ends of spine and along spine edge. An excellent copy. first edition thus. £65 [113302]

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202 205 MARTINEAU, Harriet. Feats on the Fjord. With Bo-Peep. A Picture-Book Annual for Little Folks. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham Coloured by W. Cubitt Over Thirty Colour Pictures and Many Black-and-White Cooke. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, [1914] Illustrations. London, New York, Toronto, & Melbourne: Cassell Square octavo. Original green cloth, ornate gilt design and titles to and Company, Ltd, 1914 spine and front cover gilt, colour illustration plate mounted on front Quarto. Printed pictorial covers, red cloth spine, advertisement end- cover, plain coated endpapers, top edge blue. Coloured frontispiece papers. Colour and black and white illustrations within text by various and 11 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Coloured by W. Cubitt Cooke. artists, of which two are by Arthur Rackham. Occasional spotting to Mild offsetting to endpapers, bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown, pages, light soiling to covers, spine bumped. A good copy. gilt toned at spine. An excellent copy. first edition. first edition featuring Rackham’s illustrations for this title in colour, in the green cloth binding. Riall p. 215. Latimore & Haskell p. 43; Riall p. 122. £150 [113299]

£150 [113062] 206 203 FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Snickerty Nick. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: Moffat, [Another copy, as above.] Yard & Co., 1919 Original red cloth, otherwise as previous item. A few spots to first few Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover black, pic- pages, gilt toned at spine. An excellent copy. torial image blocked to front cover black. With the dust jacket. Colour £150 [113063]

204 FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914 Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to front cover and spine gilt, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a grey solander box. Colour frontispiece and colour plate by Rackham, illustrations in text by Lauren Ford. Covers faded and with soiling, rubbing to corners and ends of spine, in the dust jacket with soiling to panels, shall chips to edges, tape to verso of spine splitting along front flap fold. A very good copy. first edition, first printing. Latimore & Haskell p. 42; Riall p. 123. £600 [113209] 205

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206 207 208 frontispiece and 2 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the in loss of most of the publisher’s statement, splitting along spine edge, text, by Rackham. Ownership address label to front pastedown, rub- chips to corners, large closed tear with creasing to lower edge of rear bing to ends of spine, in the soiled dust jacket with chips to ends of panel. A very good copy. spine and lower front edge, closed tears to edges, tape to verso of edg- first separate edition, first impression. Another selection es. A very good copy in the very uncommon dust jacket. of 25 stories from the 1909 edition Grimm’s Fairy Tales. first edition, first printing. Latimore & Haskell p. 53; Riall p. 140. Latimore & Haskell p. 50; Riall, p. 136. £750 [112988] £900 [113262] 209 207 COYKENDALL, Frederick. Arthur Rackham. A List GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Hansel & Grethel & Other of Books illustrated by him. Introduction by Martin Tales. London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1920 Birnbaum. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1922 Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front Octavo. Original cream covers, titles to front cover gilt. Toning to cov- cover gilt, image blocked to front cover, plain endpapers, top edge ers, corners rubbed. A very good copy. blue. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Top corners of pages with light crease first edition, first printing; one of 175 copies printed. This and bend, frontispiece with crease to lower corner, in the dust jacket copy inscribed by the author of the introduction: “Mrs. E. W. with moderate spotting, light wear to extremities. A very good copy. Merriam with Martin Birmbaum’s best wishes, Christmas 1922”. first separate edition, first impression. A selection of 30 Latimore & Haskell p. 56; Riall p. 145. stories from the 1909 edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, uniform £275 [113325] with Snowdrop (see following item). Latimore & Haskell p. 53; Riall p. 139. £875 [112989]

208 GRIMM, [Jakob & Wilhelm]. Snowdrop & Other Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1920 Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pictorial image blocked in gilt to front cover, plain endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Offsetting to endpapers and title page, occasional spotting to pages, corners and ends of spine a touch bumped and rubbed, in the dust jacket with moderate spotting to panels, spine toned, light chipping to top end of spine, large chip to lower end of spine resulting 209

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210 pioneering work on birth control, and her manual Married Love, CALLENDER, L. (ed.) The Windmill: Stories, Essays, was also a prolific writer of novels, poems and fairy stories. Poems & Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are Latimore & Haskell p. 62; Riall p. 160. published at the Sign of the Windmill. London: William £400 [113208] Heinemann Ltd., 1923 Quarto. Original orange covers, brown cloth spine, titles to spine and 213 front cover gilt. Colour frontispiece and 3 colour plates with captioned RHYS, Ernest (ed.) A New Book of Sense & Nonsense. tissue guards, one by Arthur Rackham, and 4 uncoloured plates by London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, others. Spotting to page fore-edge,covers with soiling, bumping to corners and ends of spine, wear to extremities, abrasion mark to rear [1928] cover. A very good copy. Small octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt, illustrated end- first edition, first impression. papers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in the text by various artists, with 11 contributions by Rackham. Latimore & Haskell p. 57; Riall p. 150. A touch of soiling to covers, in the toned dust jacket with shallow chips £100 [113006] to ends of spine. A very good copy. Part of the Everyman’s Library Series. The Rackham illustra- 211 tions included here were first published in The Ingoldsby Legends. Pears’ Annual 1924. Banbury: for A. and F. Pears, Ltd, London, 1924 Latimore & Haskell p. 64–5; Riall p. 167. Quarto. Original pictorial printed wraps. Colour and black and white £110 [113207] illustrations in text with colour centrefold by Rackham. Toning to wraps, wear along spine and corners. A very good copy. 214 first edition, first impression. Rackham’s colour illustration BROWN, Abbie Farwell. The Lonesomest Doll. Illustrated is “Winter Frolic”. by Arthur Rackham. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin £90 [113324] Co., 1928 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine black and to front cover 212 black and red, vignette blocked to front cover in black and red. With [STOPES, Marie.] FAY, Erica (pseud.) A Road to Fairyland. the dust jacket. Housed in a folding box. Colour frontispiece, decorat- With a Frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. London and New ed title page and 2 full page illustrations printed in red and green ink, black and white vignettes to text, by Rackham. In the lightly toned dust York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Ltd, 1926 jacket with just a touch of wear with short tears and shallow chips to Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front cover dark blue. the extremities. An excellent copy. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Spotting first edition, first printing. The book was originally pub- to pages, a touch rubbed and bumped at corners and ends of spine, in lished in 1901 with illustrations by E. Pollack. The Rackham il- the toned dust jacket with faint staining to front flap fold and rear top lustrated version was only published in the US. edge, chips to corners and top end of spine. A good copy. Latimore & Haskell, p. 63; Riall, p. 163. first edition, first impression. Dr Marie Stopes (1880–1958), best known today for her contributions to palaeontology, her £1,250 [113236]

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215 216 (ENO, James Crossley.) A Birthday and Some Memories The Sun Princess. Fairy Stories. With Illustrations by H. 1868–1928. London: privately printed by Spottiswoode, R. Miller, A. Garth Jones, etc. London: John F. Shaw & Co., Ballantyne and Co. Ltd, 1928 Ltd., [c.1930] Octavo. Original maroon leather with gilt title to front cover, decora- Quarto. Original printed pictorial covers. With the dust jacket. Colour tive endpapers in pink and grey. Title page printed in green and black, and black and white illustrations in the text, with 3 illustrations con- illustrations in the text. Edges rubbed in places, a very good copy. tributed by Rackham. Name to front pastedown, pages toned, a touch first edition, number 246 of 2,000 copies of this collection of rubbing along edges of covers, in the dust jacket with wear to extremities. A very good copy. of short pieces by distinguished writers who accepted the invitation of the proprietors of Eno’s Fruit Salt to “write something” first edition, first impression. This collection of fairy to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the firm. The editor’s tales featuring Rackham’s illustrated story “The Princess who foreword is signed: J.M.A., i.e. James Murray Allison. Rackham Understood Magic”, which first appeared in Rackham’s illus- provides a full-page illustration on page 28. This is the superior trated Queen Mab in 1901 leather binding; some copies were issued in paper boards. Riall p. 172. £150 [113218] £85 [113206]

217 FRY, Lewis G. (ed.) Oxted, Limpsfield and Neighbourhood. Oxted: W. & G. Godwin, [1932] Octavo. Original blue cloth backed pictorial paper covers, title and decoration to front cover black. Black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham, black and white engraved and photographic plates by various other artists. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spine tanned and a little worn at head of spine, hint of rubbing to extremities, some spotting and staining to covers; the occasional spot or stain, but a very good copy. first edition, first impression. A local guide to Oxted, Limpsfield, and the surrounding Surrey villages. The text is ac- companied by plates illustrating buildings and people and by maps of the villages and environs. In 1930 Rackham moved to Stilegate, the house he had built near Limpsfield, remaining there until his death in 1939. Riall p. 178. £150 [113287]

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218 221 STARKIE, Walter. Don Gypsy. Adventures with a Fiddle SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha. London: John Murray, The text of the First Folio, with Quarto insertions, 1936 Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt, image to front cover Illustrated from water-colors by Arthur Rackham. New blocked in gilt. Frontispiece and title page design by Rackham. Light York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939 soiling to covers. An excellent copy. Folio. Original decorative boards, cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, first edition, first impression. top edge gilt, others untrimmed and occasionally unopened. Colour Latimore & Haskell p. 73; Riall p. 191. frontispiece and 5 colour plates captioned below the illustration. Gilt spine-lettering a little darkened, one or two slight marks internally, an £90 [113205] excellent copy. deluxe edition, arthur rackham’s own copy, present- 219 ed to him by the publishers, one of the 37 volumes of the MACKAYE, Percy. The Far Familiar. Fifty New Poems. Plays of William Shakespeare published for subscribers by the Frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. London: Richards, 1938 Limited Editions Club of New York, the edition designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the press of A. Colish, New York, Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. With the dust jacket. In the toned dust jacket. An excellent copy. first edition, first impression. With the author’s compli- ment slip laid in and an autograph letter signed from the author to Lawrence Binyon, presented the book, dated 16 May 1938. Riall p. 193. £175 [113202]

220 Costume through the Ages. A Series of Six Beautiful Water-Colour Drawings by Arthur Rackham R.W.S. Specially drawn to illustrate “Peeps into the Past” but never published. London: Maggs Bros. Ltd, [1938] Small octavo. Wire-stitched in original printed wrappers. 2 black and white folding plates by Arthur Rackham, one double-page, the other larger and showing 5 drawings. A couple of spots to front cover, else fine. first edition. Riall p. 219.

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222, 223, 224, 225 in an edition of 1,950 copies, this copy unnumbered but with 224 Rackham’s initials in place of a number and with the publisher’s SHAKESPEARE, William. The Kingsway Shakespeare. presentation blindstamp to the colophon leaf. The Complete Dramatic & Poetic Works with Portrait £1,250 [113329] & Fourteen Plates in Colour. General Introduction, Biography and an Introduction to each play by Frederick 222 D. Losey M.A. And with Glossary and Self-pronouncing Catalogue of the Arthur Rackham Memorial Exhibition. Index to Characters. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, May London: Ernest Brown & Philipps, Ltd, The Leicester Galleries, 1949 December 1939 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides blocked in Sextodecimo pamphlet, pp. 12 Original pink wrappers, printed in blue, blind. Front inner hinge cracked but holding, a very good copy. single wire staple. Photo portrait frontispiece of Rackham. A touch of Losey’s edition of Shakespeare is illustrated with two colour rust from wire, else a fine copy. plates by Rackham, at pages 528 and 945, illustrating Henry IV, Rackham died in September 1939 The catalogue lists 71 items Pt. 2, and Macbeth. The other plates are by Sir Frank Dicksee, for sale in December, prices on application. Frank Brangwyn, Dudley Hardy, Elizabeth Brickdale, “and other eminent artists”. First published October 1927; this is the sev- £100 [113867] enth printing. 223 Not in Latimore & Haskell or Riall. BIRNBAUM, Martin. Jacovleff and Other Artists.New £90 [113220] York: Paul A. Struck, 1946 225 Quarto. Original blue cloth backed paper boards, title on black label in white, title to spine silver, top-edge blue, edges untrimmed. Housed in BAUGHMAN, Roland. The Centenary of Arthur the original blue cardboard box. 60 plates by various artists, including Rackham’s Birth September 19, 1867 An appreciation 4 by Arthur Rackham. Very minor rubbing to boards; occasional tan- of his genius and a catalogue of his original sketches, ning and spotting. Gift inscription to the half-title. Loosely inserted is drawings, and paintings in the Berol Collection. New York: a catalogue to the memorial exhibition of the work of Alexandre Iacov- leff held at the Tretyakov Gallery in New York. Columbia University Libraries, 1967 deluxe edition, number 107 of 200 copies signed by the au- Folio. Original grey boards lettered in brown with a reproduction of thor and printed on handmade paper, from the entire edition of a Rackham self-portrait mounted on the front cover. 11 colour plates, 2,000 copies. The book includes a chapter on Arthur Rackham, text illustrations throughout. A fine copy, with the original invitation with reproductions of four of his illustrations. to view the collection laid in. first edition of this centenary catalogue, celebrating the Riall p. 202. Arthur Rackham collection gifted to the Libraries of Columbia £90 [113320] University by Mr and Mrs Alfred C. Berol. This is the superior casebound issue; the catalogue was also issued in wrappers. £75 [113328]

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Catalogue of the Arthur Rackham Memorial Goldsmith, Oliver 79–82 Exhibition 222 Goldstone, W. B. 35 Centenary of Arthur Rackham’s Birth, The 225 Good–Night (Buenas Noches) 183–3 Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon 143 Grahame, Kenneth 118–21 index Children and the Pictures, The 181 Granby, Marquess of 149 Children’s Christmas Treasury, The 173 Greek Heroes, The 194 Children’s Hour, The 179 Greenaway, Kate 164 Chimes, The 88 Greene, the Hon. Mrs 163 Cholmondeley, Mary 171 Grey House on the Hill, The 163 Aesop’s Fables 25–7 Christmas Carol, A 38–41 Grey Lady, The 139 Aldin, Cecil 130 Cinderella 51–3 Grey, Hemingford 162 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 7–10 Clampitt, Helen 122 Grey, Sir Edward 149 Allies’ Fairy Book, The 42–3 Cole, H. 157 Griffiths, Arthur 159 Allison, James Murray 215 Compleat Angler, The 83–7 Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm 21–2, 44–5, Andersen, Hans Christian 96–100 Comus 61, 62 154–6, 199, 207–8 Argonauts of the Amazon, The 158 Copsey, A. T. 126 Gulliver’s Travels 17, 18 Armour, Margaret 23, 24 Costume Through the Ages 220 Haddon Hall Library, The 149 Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, The 103–7 Cotter’s Saturday Night, The 186–8 Hamer, S. H. 176 Arthur Rackham: a List of Books Illustrated by Coykendall, Frederick 209 Hamilton, Myra 175 Him 209 Crane, Walter 130, 199 Hansel & Grethel 207 Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures 36–7 Cuthbert, Kathleen Alice 48 Harbour, Henry 167–8 Auld Acquaintance 184 Dana, Richard Henry 166 Harrod, H. H. 60 Barham, Richard Harris 11, 145 Dawe, Carlton 138 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 65–6 Barnum, Mrs 122 De La Motte Fouqué 19, 20 Haydon, A. L. 193 Barrie, J. M. 4–6, 28–32 Dewar, George A. B. 149 Henley, W. E. 130 Barry, John Arthur 162 Dickens, Charles 38–41, 88 Henty, G. A. 162, 190 Baughman, Roland 225 Dish of Apples, A 63–4 Herbertson, Agnes Grozier 153 Baumer, Lewis 189 Dodgson, Charles L. 7–10 Hill, Miranda 165 Beardsley, Aubrey 130 Dolly Dialogues, The 123 Hole, S. Reynolds 149–50 Beatrice, Princess 31 Don Gypsy 218 Holme, Charles 172 Bee–Blowaways, The 153, 195 Douglas, Prof. Robert K. 162 Homes and Haunts of Thomas Carlyle 129 Bentley, Maude 23 Drury, W. P. 170 Hope, Anthony 123 Berlyn, Annie 124–5 East Coast Scenery 146–7 Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe 169 Berol, Mr & Mrs Arthur C. 225 English Fairy Tales 48 Hunting 149 Besant, Annie 127 Eno, J. C. 215 Hutton, Edward 173 Bianco, Margery Williams 71–3 Erichsen, Alice 21, 22 Ibsen, Henrik 114–17 Bird Watching 149 Evans, C. S. 51–3, 59–60 Illustrated Guide to Sheringham, The 148 Birnbaum, Martin 209, 223 Evelina 144 Imagina 204 Birthday and Some Memories, A 215 Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen 96–100 In the Evening of His Days 137 Bleackley, Horace 160 Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The 21, 22 Ingoldsby Legends, The 11, 145 Book of Betty Barber, The 191–2 Faithful Friends 161, 198 Irish Fairy Tales 57, 58 Boothby, Guy 162 Far Familiar, The 219 Irving, Washington 1–3, 76–78, 131, 133, Bo–Peep 205 Farjeon, Herbert 221 135 Boucher, W. 190 Farming 149 Isis Very Much Unveiled 127 Bracebridge Hall 135 Fay, Erica 212 “Jack and the Beanstalk” 103 Brains and Bravery 162 Feats on the Fjord 151, 197, 202–3 Johnston, Sir Harry 63 Briedé, Johan 10, 27 Fitzgerald, Shafto Justin Adair 134 Jones, A. Garth 157, 216 Brown, Abbie Farwell 214 Fly Fishing 149 Jones, E. V. Vernon 25–7 Browne, Maggie 140–2, 165, 172, 191–2 Ford, Julia Ellsworth 204, 206 Judge, William Quan 127 Browning, Robert 91–2, 108–9 Forester, F. B. 162 Keightley, Bertram 127 Bryan, Alfred 122 Fort, Paul 56 Kemp–Welch, Lucy 149 Bryden, H. A. 162 Frampton, George 31 Kenyon, C. R. 158 Burney, Frances 144 Friederichs, Hulda 137 Kinder-Märchen 199 Burns, Robert 186–8 Fry, Lewis G. 217 King Albert’s Book 201 Callender, L. 210 Furniss, Harry 164 King of the Golden River, The 91–5 Calvert, Walter 128 Gallant Deeds 190 King, Jessie M. 164 Captain Castle 138 Garrett, Edmund 127 Kingdoms Curious 175 Carlyle, Thomas 129 Gates, Eleanor 182–3 Kingsway Shakespeare, The 224 Carroll, Lewis 7–10 Gladstone, W. G. 137 Kipling, Rudyard 180 Carter, John 122 Goblin Market 91–92, 101, 102 Lamb, Charles & Mary 14–16, 152

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Land of Enchantment, The 185 Pictures of East Coast Health Resorts 126 Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue 172 Lawrence, James F. N. 1 Pied Piper of Hamelin, The 91–2, 108–9 Swift, Jonathan 17–18 “‘Lay!’ roared the giant” 103 Pitman, Rosie 164 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 49–50 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The 76–78 Poe, Edgar Allen 110–13 Tales from Shakespeare 14–16, 152 Lever, Charles 143 Pollard, Alfred W. 46–7 Tales of a Traveller 133 Lingwood, Lemmon 148 Poor Cecco 71–3 Tales of Mystery and Imagination 110–13 Little Brother and Little Sister 44, 45 Princess Mary’s Gift Book 200 Tallentyre, S. G. 136 Little Folks Fairy Book, The 176 Puck of Pook’s Hill 180 Tate, William J. 146–7 Little Folks Plays, The 165 Punch, or the London Charivari 178 Tempest, The 74, 75 Littledom Castle 164 Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm 157 Temple Literary Readers, The 197 Livre des ballades, Le 56 Quiller–Couch, Sir Arthur 36, 37 Tennant, Pamela 181 London Garland, A 130 Rackham “specials” 7, 79, 83, 89, 93, 96, Terry, Ellen 128 Lonesomest Doll, The 214 101, 104, 110, 114 Thomson, Hugh 164, 189 Losey, Frederick D. 224 Rainbow Book, The 189 Threlfall, T. R. 162 Lucas, Mrs Edgar 21, 22 Red Pottage 171 To the Other Side 122 Lyttleton, the Hon. R. H. 149 Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, The 23, 24 Tod, W. M. 149 Mackaye, Percy 219 Rhodes, Thomas 122 Two Old Ladies Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Maggs Bros. 220 Rhys, Ernest 213 Cat 140–2 Martin, Gustave 25 Rides on Wheels 177 Two Years Before the Mast 166 Martineau, Harriet 151, 197, 202–3 Ring of the Nibelung, The 23–4 Tynan, Katharine 162 May, Phil 164 “Rip” 160 Uncle Maurice 196 Meade, L. T. 162 Rip Van Winkle 1–3 Undine 19–20 Merriam, Mrs E. W. 209 Road to Fairyland, A 212 Vicar of Wakefield, The 79–82 Merriman, Henry Seton 136, 139 Rogers, Bruce 118, 221 Wagenknecht, Edward 88 Messel, Muriel 13 Romance of King Arthur, The 46–7 Wagner, Richard 23–4 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 12–13, 221 Ronner, Mme 164 Wain, Louis 196 Milford Haven, Marchioness of 31 Rossetti, Christina 91–92, 101–2 Walton, Izaak 83–7 Millar, H. R. 157, 216 Rountree, Harry 189, 191–2 Wells, H. G. 132 Milton, John 61–2 Ruskin, John 91–92 Where Flies the Flag 167–8 Molly Bawn 169 Savage, R. 157 Where the Blue Begins 67–70 Money–Spinner, The 136 Savory, J. Harry 184 Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands 149 Moore, Clement C. 89–92 Scrumshus Story–Book, The 195 Wilhelm, C. 164, 189 More Tales of the Stumps 160 Selous, Edward 149 Williamson, W. H. 162 Morley, Christopher 67–70 Shakespeare, William 12–16, 74–5, 152, Wilson, Carroll Atwood 123 Mother Goose 33–35 221, 224 Wind in the Willows, The 118–21 Motoring in the Park 177 Shand, Alexander Innes 149 Windmill, The 210 Murphy, Clyde & Tubbs 35 Shelley, Henry C. 129 Wire, Constance Catherine 5 Mysteries of Police and Crime 159 Shooting 149 Wonder Book, A 65–6 New Book of Sense & Nonsense, A 213 Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods 23, 24 Wonderful Visit, The 132 Niebuhr, Barthold Georg 194 Sketch–Book of Geoffrey Crayon, The 131 Wood, Walter 162 Night Before Christmas, The 89–92 Sleeping Beauty, The 59–60 Yates, M. T. 197 Nisbet, John 149 Snickerty Nick 206 Yeats, Jack B. 130 ‘Old’ Water–Colour Society, The 174 Snowdrop & Other Tales 208 Younger, Arthur 4 Osborne, Eric 122 Snowflake’s Picture Book 196 Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch, The 134 Our Forests and Woodlands 149 Some British Ballads 54–6 Our Gardens 149–50 Souvenir of Sir Henry Irving 128 Out–Door Games 149 Spielmann, Mrs M. H. 163, 189 Oxted, Limpsfield and Neighbourhood 217 Springtime of Life, The 49–50 Paget, J. Otho 149 Starkie, Fanny 26, 41, 95 Parker, D. J. 127 Starkie, Walter 218 Partridge, Bernard 189 Steel, Flora Annie 48 Pears’ Annual 1924 211 Stephens, James 57, 58 Peaton, Arthur 126 Stilwell, Brian 157 Peeps into the Past 220 Stopes, Marie 212 Peer Gynt 114–17 Stories of King Arthur 193 Pennell, Joseph 130 Stuart, James & Laura E. 145 Peradventures of Private Pagett, The 170 Studio, The 174 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 4–6, 29–32 Sturla, Cyril 83 Peter Pan Portfolio 28 Sun Princess, The 216 Phillpotts, Eden 63–4 Sunrise-Land 124–5 55

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