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Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UNDATED. 4to: xviii, 76pp, plus 22 colour plates. Rubbed green cloth, gilt lettering and decor on spine and front cover. Gilt top edge. Some spotting throughout.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Milton, John. Comus. Heinemann, Doubleday, Ny and London, 1921.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
John Milton. Comus by John Milton (Arthur Rackham Art). Doubleday Page, New York, 1921.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Comus by John Milton (Arthur Rackham Art) A square copy with front hinge starting, worn cloth edges with damp marks to upper portion of covers and scratches to back cover. Small bookplate to front endpaper. Rubbed closed tear to two leaves, text pages 31-34. Tanning to page edges. No date [1921] Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition. 24 tipped-in color plates w ith captioned tissue-guards, and numerous b/w drawings. Green cloth, pictorial gilt, pictorial endpapers. Printed in Great Britain. New York: Doubleday Page & London: William Heinemann
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Milton, John. Comus. Doubleday Page/William Heinemann, New York/London, 1921.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 76pgs.frontispiece.illustrated endpapers.22 tipped in color plates. previous owner signature on half title page.Green Cloth, gilt decorations, lettering on front panel. Closed tear on upper spine, nick ln the middle and fraying to the lower edge. corners rubbed.internally fine. Size: Quarto
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Description: Colour tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham, as well as some black and white decorations. Green cloth with gold decoration. Very Good (+), without dust jacket.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Milton, John, Rackham, Arthur. Comus. William Heinemann, 1921.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Comus by John Milton Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, William Heinemann, London, Doubleday Page & Co., New York, 1921, 76 pp, green decorative cloth, 10.25 x 8, 4to. In good condition. A stunning book in general! Light wear to extremities with minor crushing to tips and end bands. Minor rubbing to surface of cloth. Spine slightly faded with rubbed gilt work. Front cover depicting monsters wearing Elizabethan ruffs designed by Rackham. Pictorial end papers in light blue depicting silhouette nymphs being chased by sprites in the wood. Gift inscription dated Christmas, 1921 on rear fly leaf. Front gutter tender and nearly split. Light age-related toning throughout. Binding remains intact. All plates and tissue guards present. Free of known markings. Top edge gilt. Please see photos. A truly whimsical and delightful take on Miltons mythology Comus, 1634. Comus is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Arthur Rackham books are quite collectible and fetch high prices at auction, especially first editions in nice shape. Rackham is considered the leading illustrator of the Golden Age of British book illustration at the turn of the 20th century. Simply wonderful.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Milton, John. Comus. William Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$331.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Milton. Comus, Illustrated by Athur Rackhma. William Heinemann, London. Kein Datum[1921].259:198mm. XVIII+76S. 24 farb. eingesetzte Abb. + 12 ganzseit. s.+w. Zeichnungen und zahlr. Vignetten von Arthur Rackham. Vorsätze mit weissen Schattenschnitten auf hellbaluem Papier. Grünes Or.-Ln. mit vergoldedetem Rückentitel und Deckelillsutration von Rackham. Erste Ausgabe. Leicht Stockfleckig, stärkere an ersten und letzten seiten. Einband leicht berieben. Ohne die Or.-Schutzumschlag
Seller: Paule Leon Bisson-Millet, Beilstein, Germany
Milton, John. Comus. Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ptg., small 4to, full green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. 22 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. Top corner bumped, small tear to interior hinge else fine in chipped and worn dj.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: FIRST TRADE EDITION. 4to. 10 x 7.75 inches. xviii + 76 pp. Rebound in half green morocco over green boards, preserving original endpapers and title panel and with new second and third free endpapers. ; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with gilt titles. Deckled edges. Occasional scattered foxing, largely confined to margins, but otherwise a very good copy. Pictorial bookplate on first free endpaper with signature on verso. Illustrated by 24 colour plates, including frontispiece on tan paper with sepia captioned tissue guards, by facsimile of 1637 first edition title, and by numerous drawings, many whole page and vignettes in text. Decorated by title page, preliminary and head and tailpiece vignettes. Pictorial silhouette endpapers. John Milton's masque in honour of chastity, first presented at Ludlow Castle in 1634, and here beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A handsomely rebound copy. preserving the original title block. (Riall, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, p.143). ART / LITERATURE RACKHAM DRAMA 17TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Milton, John (Arthur Rackham illustrator). Comus. Heinemann London (1921), 1921.
Price: US$374.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition pictorial boards Nice copy large octavo 76pp., col. pls., text illusts., 24 fine colour plates by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. Dark green boards with gilt decoration on upper board & spine. Nice owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Some ghosting of plates & mounts in text o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first trade edition (nd. but Latimore & Haskell state this as first edition). PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No date; circa 1921. Large 7 1/2" x 10" gift book design. Dk. green full-cloth boards, gilt embossed cover and spine design, titles, moderate shelf wear, some spine rub. Front board features stylized cover titles and several ogre-like creatures including donkey, goat, wolf and owl. Colour frontispiece plate w/caption: "All amidst the Gardens fair, Of Hesperus, and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Fine tissue guard w/printed caption. Thick, deckled pages very good, clean. Green pictorial endpapers with white silhouettes of four maidens bounding past tree and small satyr-like beings in chase. Bind good; hinges intact. Features twenty-two tipped-in color plates on thick matte pages by the wondrous illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Each plate beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magically best; fine tissue guards w/printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Colour-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page b&w imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Full title of John Milton's Comus: 'A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council'. Here, in John Milton's masque Comus, the god is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe, a post-classical invention. The tale concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. When the Lady becomes fatigued, the brothers wander off in search of sustenance. While alone, she encounters the debauched Comus, a character inspired by the god of revelry, disguised as a villager who claims he will lead her to her brothers. Deceived by his amiable countenance, the Lady follows him, only to be captured, brought to his pleasure palace and victimised by his necromancy. Printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd., Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London. 76 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$427.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xviii, 76 Pp. + Tissue-Guarded Color Plates By Rackham. Parchment Spine, Gilt, Paper-Covered Boards, Gilt, Illustrated Blue Endpapers. One Of 550 Copies Of The Limited Edition, Uk Issue With Heinemann On Spine, Signed By Rackham On The Limitation Page. Undated But 1921. Spine And Cover Gilt Bright, Wear And Discoloration To Parchment Spine And Paper Covered Boards, Some Fraying To Paper Right On Edges Of Boards Mainly Along Bottom Edge, And Tiny Fray At Top Of Rear Spine Edge. Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates Or Stains, No Foxing.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur; MILTON, John. Comus. London: William Heinemann, 1921, 1921.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade Edition of Rackham's Comus In the Original Color Pictorial Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. London: William Heinemann, [1921]. First trade edition. Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 183 mm.). xviii, 76, [2] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Two color plates (nos. XIV & XVI) with very light corner creases. Publishers green cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, blue and white pictorial endpapers. Some sporadic light foxing but still a very good copy in the scarce original color pictorial dust jacket. lightly chipped at spine ends and extremities. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition of 550, signed and numbered by Rackham. Bound in publisher's 1/2 parchment over beige boards. Gilt images of four creatures on the front cover. Some darkening, soiling to cover. Corners lightly bumped. Blue end pages showing the silhouette of nymphs and fawns. xviii, 76 pages, 24 tipped in color plates & black and white illustrations; 26 cm. Pages are generally clean. Latimore & Haskell, p. 54; Riall, p. 143.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Milton, John. Comus. Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 76pgs. Frontispiece. illustrated blue and white endpapers. Half-title, gilt decorated boards. 24 exquisite mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. Original vellum-backed pictorial paper boards with gilt titles and decorations. Top edges gilt. This edition is a limited edition, number 459 of 550 copies signed by the artist. There is darkening to the covers, toning to the spine.The corner tips show minor wear. Internally clean, unmarked. A wonderful edition of this classic story of virtue vs. desire. Size: Quarto
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
MILTON, John. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Comus.. William Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: xviii, 76 pp. With 24 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf; additional illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's art-vellum-backed gilt-decorated boards, t.e.g. First edition. No.158 of 550 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Light foxing to the white boards; light rubbing at edges; contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Milton, John. Comus. William Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: One-half crushed red moroccor, spine simply gilt. Leather darkened and with some rubbing to joints, internally clean, near fine in custom mylar cover. First edition thus, one of 400 copies for England, signed by Arthur Rackham.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
MILTON, John; illustrated by RACKHAM, Arthur. COMUS. London: William Heinemann. [], 1921.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: First edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations. Signed limited edition. Original paper covered boards with titles in gilt to the spine and upper board, as well as an illustration in gilt to the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with 24 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham, protected by lettered tissue guards, as well as further black and white in-text drawings. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the corners a little bumped and worn, the boards and spine with dustiness, the edges of the upper board toned. The contents, page 35 having a very short closed tear to the margin, are clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Number 225 of 550 copies signed by Arthur Rackham in black ink on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
John Milton. Comus. Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$901.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited edition, number 284 of 550 copies. Boards a trifle discoloured, Internally a very fresh clean copy, no creased plates. This was the long delayed publication from before the First World War. The quality of the illustrations is superb and the volume is a 'must have' for any lover of Rackham's evocative fairy and tree nymph period
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1028.50 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 529 of 550 copies, signed by the illustrator; 4to; 24 tipped in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece, captioned tissue guards, headpieces, tailpieces and full-page black and white illustrations also by Rackham throughout, text clean and bright; publisher's quarter vellum, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, gilt device to upper cover, light spotting to boards, top edge gilt, others uncut or unopened, blue pictorial endpapers, housed in a custom buff solander box; overall a very good example. An attractive limited edition of John Milton's Comus, from an edition of 550 copies signed by the artist, of which this is number 529. Comus is a masque in honour of chastity, first presented on Michaelmas in 1634 before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); MILTON, John.. Comus.. London: William Heinemann, [1921], 1921.
Price: US$1030.61 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 320 of 550 copies signed by the illustrator. Latimore & Haskell pp. 54-5; Riall, p. 143. Quarto. Original vellum-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered and with designs in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 23 coloured plates tipped-in on heavy brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Covers lightly toned, corners slightly worn, occasional browning, minor crease to plate 7, minor abrasions to plate 19; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
RACKHAM, Arthur; MILTON, John. Comus. London: William heinemann, 1921, 1921.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: With Twenty-Four Mounted Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heineman[n.d., 1921]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 550 copies (this copy being no. 215). Large quarto (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 297 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream-colored parchment boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in blue and white. Spine darkened, slight 'toning' to parchment boards, corners bumped, board edges rubbed. A fair copy - internally clean. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period." (Hudson, p.119). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: From limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 550 copies numbered and signed by the Artist, of which 400 are for sale in the United Kingdom, 100 for sale in the United States of America, and 50 for presentation. This is No. 514. Arthur Rackham". Folio 9 1/4" x 12" gift book design. Cream vellum spine wrap w/gilt titles, some rub. Front board features stylized gilt cover titles and several ogre-like creatures including donkey, goat, wolf and owl. Color frontispiece plate w/caption: "All amidst the Gardens fair, Of Hesperus, and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Fine tissue guard w/printed caption. Thick, deckled pages near fine, clean. Gilt top edge w/some rub. Green pictorial endpapers with white silhouettes of four maidens bounding past tree and small satyr-like beings in pursuit. Bind good; hinges intact. Features two dozen tipped-in color plates on thick matte pages by the wondrous illustrator, Arthur Rackham - two more than first edition. Each plate beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magically best; each with fine tissue guards with printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Colour-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page b&w imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. Rare near very good example of fine book craftsmanship. Full title of John Milton's Comus: "A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Majesty's most honorable privy council." Here, in John Milton's masque Comus, the god is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe, a post-classical invention. The tale concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. When the Lady becomes fatigued, the brothers wander off in search of sustenance. While alone, she encounters the debauched Comus, a character inspired by the god of revelry, disguised as a villager who claims he will lead her to her brothers. Deceived by his amiable countenance, the Lady follows him, only to be captured, brought to his pleasure palace and victimised by his necromancy. Printed in Great Britain by The Cornwall Press, Ltd., Paris Garden, Stamford Street, London. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur; MILTON, John. Comus. London: William Heinemann, 1921, 1921.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: With Twenty-Four Mounted Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heineman[n.d., 1921]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 550 copies (this copy being no. 375). Large quarto (11 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 295 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Bound ca. 1992 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt to match the original 1921 cover design, spine paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut, original pictorial endpapers. Fine. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period." (Hudson, p.119). Comus (A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas, 1634, before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales. Known colloquially as Comus, the masque's actual full title is A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: on Michelmas night, before the Rt Hon. Iohn Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and one of His Maiesties most honorable privie councill. Comus was printed anonymously in 1637, in a quarto issued by bookseller Humphrey Robinson; Milton included the work in his Poems of 1645 and 1673. Milton's text was later used for a highly successful masque by the musician Thomas Arne in 1738, which then ran for more than seventy years in London. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 418 of 550 numbered copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full blue crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial block to front board gilt, original pictorial endpapers bound in, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 22 tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues. Spine lightly sunned, wear along spine edges, A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom