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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.
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.
John Milton. Comus. Heinemann, London, 1921.
Price: US$905.53 + 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$1034.89 + 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
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.
Price: US$1940.42 + 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