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Price: US$1550.00 + shipping
Description: 134 pages. 4to, 30 x 24 cm. Limited edition signed by Rackham with no limitation stated. Forty tipped-in full-page mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, plus black and white illustrations in the text. "His interpretations of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and WIND IN THE WILLOWS, for example, have become definitive, and continue to challenge later illustrators to find new approaches." [see: HAMILTON. p.9 "Arthur Rackham A Biography"]. Toning [approx. half centimeter fore-edge and foot] of title, front cover lightly soiled, lacks ties. Orig. decorated cream colored cloth. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3552.33 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 438 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Rackham "developed his gift for drawing witches, gnomes, fairies, and anthropomorphized trees and brought them to a pitch of vivid characterization, sometimes with an unsettling frisson of horror" (ODNB). Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall, p. 87. Quarto (273 x 221 mm). Mid-20th-century blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, compartments and covers panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards mounted on heavy brown paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham; title page printed in olive-green & black. Light spotting on occasion to contents; still a fine copy in a handsome binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom