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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 12 5/8 x 9 inches; 321 x 229 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p.… Read More

Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1906. De Luxe Edition in French This Copy Specially Signed By Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Illustré par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Hachette et Cie.,1906. French Edition De Luxe, limited to 200 unsigned letterpress-numbered copies on 'Papier Whatman', this being copy no. 199, specially signed by Rackham. Quarto (11 x 8 5/8 in; 280 x 216 mm). x, 69, [3] pp. Frontispiece and fifty color plates with captioned tissue guards mounted on heavy brown stock. Publisher's full gilt-stamped vellum with original yellow ribbon ties. Small marginal wormhole affecting just the front free endpaper and the limitation leaf. An excellent copy, the binding fresh and clean. Housed in a plain chemise-style case. In 1906 Hachette et Cie, Paris, published two Edition DeLuxe versions of this title. There were 200 unsigned copies on 'Papier Whatman' and in addition another 20 copies that were signed by Rackham and printed on 'Papier du Japon.' Around… Read More

London: J.M.Dent & Co., 1907. The Second and Best Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: J.M. Dent & Co.,1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 251 x 193 mm.). Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. Original green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, tope edge gilt, others uncut. Mild wear to cloth boards, but still a very good copy. "In 1898 Messrs. Dent and Co. first published 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' with about one hundred illustrations of mine. This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publisher's have felt with me that, with the addition of new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be… Read More

London: Lund Humphries and Company, 1949. Bernard Rackham's "The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral" RACKHAM, Bernard. The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral. With a Foreword by the Late Archbishop Lord Lang of Lambeth. London: Published for the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral by Lund Humphries and Company, 1949. First edition. Large quarto (12 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 330 x 238 mm.). xvi, 194 pp. Twenty-one color plates, including frontispiece, on heavy gray stock, each with a leaf of descriptive text, and an additional eighty monochrome plates throughout the text. Original blue buckram decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Upper corners lightly bumped. Some cellotape residue on front free endpapers from where a jacket once was attached. Otherwise a very good copy. With sticker at foot of title-page: Boston Book and Art Shop Inc., Boston, Massachusetts. Many of the windows of Canterbury Cathedral contain stained glass, in fact there is around… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Trade Edition Fifty-One Mounted Color Plates [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Trade Edition. Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 184 mm.). viii, 57, [1 blank], [2]pp. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted with titles tissue guards. Publishers green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, plain green end-papers, all edges stained green. Preliminary text leaves and some tissue-guards foxed, spine slightly faded and a little worn at head and tail. Small repaired tear cloth on edge of front board, lower corners worn. In inscription date Xmas 1905 on verso of front free end-paper. A good copy only. Around the middle of 1904... Ernest Brown & Phillips commissioned 50 color illustrations to Rip Van Winkle, and purchased the originals and all rights for 300 guineas. The publishing rights were then resold in a complicated deal to Heinemann,… Read More

New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. With Two Full-Page Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). [12], 178, [1], [1, blank] pp. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Pages 171/172 with lower corner crease, pages 173-176 with neat repairs on upper blank margin. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial end-papers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Extremities of binding a little faded, some slight wear to top and and bottom of spine and corners. A good copy of the scarce first edition. A wee young, motherless boy, a dreamer who secretly loves poetry, yearns to be held and loved by the beautiful woman he has conjured in… Read More

[London]: , 1890. An Original Arthur Rackham Pencil Drawing To The Other Side? RACKHAM, Arthur, artist. "Arriving by Boat" [n.d., n.p., ca. 1890]. Original pencil drawing. Image size: 8 1/2 x 5 inches: 215 x 127 mm. Matted, framed and glazed (frame size: 16 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches; 423 x 323 mm.). In the foreground is a small row boat docked by some steps. One man with a hat and coat on is sitting in the boat and there is a man on the dock holding what might be some fish. One woman is bending down to look at the fish and another woman is climbing the steps. In the background, sketched, are group of people up on the quayside. In our opinion it is quite possible that this pencil drawing was a preparatory sketch for Rackham's first (and rarest) published book: To The Other Side. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham & Alfred Bryan. London: George Philip & Son, 1893. The text of this book is in the form of a travel brochure, starting with embarkation on the Majestic in Liverpool, sailing to New York,… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. By The Author of The Velveteen Rabbit First English Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who was the Jolliest Toy in the House until He Went out to Explore the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 186 mm.). 175, [1] pp. Seven mounted color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Small neat ink signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. The text, with the same plates and drawings, first appeared in magazine form in Good Housekeeping, beginning in May 1925. "The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), [Margery Williams Bianco's ] first children's book, was illustrated by William Nicholson. It was followed by… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1915. Edition de Luxe, Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1915]. Limited to 525 numbered copies, of which 500 are for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies (this copy being No. 444), signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 291 x 230 mm.). xv, [1, blank], 147, [1] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards printed in red, and twenty drawings in black and white. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Later yellow silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. Later silk ties. The inner hinges have been expertly strengthened and there is a small (one inch) neat repair to the top of the front free end-paper. For some unexplained reason there is an additional front free… Read More

: , 1890. Arthur Rackham's Fünverein - His 'Five Club' RACKHAM, Arthur, artist. "Saas Fee" [n.d., n.p., ca. 1890]. Original pencil and red crayon drawing, signed "A Rackham/Saas Fee/-- 99" on lower right-hand corner. Image size: 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches: 159 x 95 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. (frame size: 14 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches; 371 x 298 mm.). A pencil and red crayon drawing depicting five women in Swiss costume, three of them standing up straight and two of them leaning forward. "The 1890s was the period in which Rackham travelled in England, Europe and Scandinavia whenever opportunities allowed. His circle of friends had widened by this time to include Frank Keen, Sam Hamer, and the two Andrewes brothers, Herbert and Percy... The five formed themselves into a kind of jolly walking club, which they called the Fünfverein (Five Club). Their English holidays took them to Dartmoor from a base at Kelly College, Tavistock, and European holidays to France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany." (James… Read More

New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. One of the Rarest of all the Books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 243 x 184 mm.). viii, 9 -78, [2, blank] pp. Three full-page color plates and ten full-page black and white drawings. Original light blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black, spine lettered in black. Minimal fading to spine and slight rubbing to extremities, rear inner hinge tender. Slight dustmark on lower margin 1/8 inch on third color plate. A very good copy of a scarce Rackham title. "The idea of the Selfish Giant in this play has been taken from the story of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. Spring would not come to his garden because he would not let the children play in it. It was always winter there. One morning he woke up hearing the music of a linnet singing in his garden. He jumped out of bed and saw a… Read More

London: John Murray, 1934. RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. STARKIE, Walter. Spanish Raggle-Taggle. Adventures with a Fiddle in North Spain. London: John Murray, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (8 7/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 214 x 140 mm.). [xvi], 488 pp. Frontispiece and title-page vignette by Arthur Rackham. Folding map inserted at p. 482. Publishers red cloth over boards, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge stained red. Bookplate on front paste-down, neat ink inscription on front fly-leaf. A fine copy in the original blue and white printed dust-jacket, spine slightly faded.

Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1935. Snickerty Nick with the Music Near Fine in original Printed Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick & the Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford... Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur Ridgway. Los Angeles San Franciso: Sutton House, [1935]. [Third edition, the first with the music included]. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches; 242 x 183 mm.). [viii], [1]-81, [1, blank], [83]-132 pp. Three full-page monotone plates (facing pp. 16, 20 & 42), eight full-page black & white drawings and two line drawings. Original 'bright yellow' cloth with pictorial stamping in black on the front cover in black. A near fine copy in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket, some light chipping to extremities, some tiny tape repairs, otherwise an excellent example of a dust jacket that we have never seen before. The differences between this and the 1933 edition are as follows: The title-page of the 1933 edition has the imprint Suttonhouse: Los Angeles 1933 whilst the… Read More

[London]: , 1890. Original Arthur Rackham Pencil Sketch RACKHAM, Arthur, artist. "Woman Running" [n.d., n.p., ca. 1890]. Original pencil drawing. Image size: 5 x 5 inches: 127 x 127 mm. Matted, framed and glazed (frame size: 14 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches; 368 x 288 mm.). This pencil drawing depicts a woman running. She is wearing a hat and a jacket and long skirt. Provenance: from the artist's family. Exhibited at 'The British Art of Illustration' 26th November - 20th December, 1991 (no. 222).

London : William Heinemann, 1918. First Trade Edition in the Original Printed Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1918]. First trade edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 inches; 248 x 183 mm). Eight full-page color plates with tissue guards. Fifty-two black and white text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge stained green. Inner hinges very slightly cracked but firm. A bright and near fine copy in the original green printed dust jacket. "[Rackham's] drawings for Swinburne's poems of childhood, The Springtide of Life...attracted the admiration of Edmund Gosse, who expressed his appreciation in a preface and told Rackham personally (18th October 1918: 'This volume will not merely be the best book of the… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1932. The First American Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., n.d. [1932]. First American trade edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 220 x 147 mm.). 47, [1] pp. With four color plates and fifteen black and white drawings. Publisher's reddish orange cloth with color pictorial label to front cover. Pictorial end-papers. An excellent copy in the original slightly chipped color pictorial dust jacket. John Ruskin (1819-1900), "English author and artist, whose The King of the Golden River might be regarded as the first English fairy story for children. Though it was not published until 1851, seven years after Francis Paget's The Hope of the Katzekopfs, it was in fact written in 1841 for 12-year-old Effie Gray, whom he later married. It is a story of the three brothers of tradition, two bad, the youngest good, and their reception of a… Read More

London: George Harrap & Co., 1932. One of 575 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George Harrap & Co., [1932]. One of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy No. 472. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 146 mm.). 47, [1] pp. Four color plates and fifteen drawings in black and white. Original limp vellum. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A few text leaves roughly opened, small inoffensive stains on endpapers. A very good copy. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case. John Ruskin (1819-1900), "English author and artist, whose The King of the Golden River might be regarded as the first English fairy story for children. Though it was not published until 1851, seven years after Francis Paget's The Hope of the Katzekopfs, it was in fact written in 1841 for 12-year-old Effie Gray, whom he later married. It is a story of the three brothers of… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. I Envy No Body But Him, And Him Only, That Catches More Fish Than I Do" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. 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., [1931]. Limited to 775 numbered copies (this copy being No. 265), signed by the artist. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 13/16 inches; 263 x 198 mm.). 223, [1] pp. Twelve color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Title printed in green and black. Original full vellum over boards. Front cover lettered in gilt within a gilt triple-rule border, spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with three gilt rules at top and bottom of spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in reddish brown and white. In the original publisher's? white cardboard box. Spine very slightly creased… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. The Final Book Published During Rackham's Lifetime [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. The Text of the First Folio, with Quarto Insertions, Edited and Amended Where Obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated from Water-colors by Arthur Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. Deluxe edition limited to 1,950 copies of which this is no. 1306. Folio (12 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 328 x 223 mm.). Six color lithographed plates. With LEC Subscriber's Letter for this volume laid-in at front. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Publishers quarter tan buckram over decorative paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A near fine copy. "The illustrations for this play were made by one of the world's most famous illustrators, that Englishman Mr. Arthur Rackham. He has been for years one of the most prolific of the world's illustrators, and one of the most admired. He is now seventy-two years old, having being born in… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. Tell it to the Marines" A Near Fine Copy in the Original Pictorial Dust Jacket With Eight Half-Tone Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur]. DRURY, Major W.P. The Peradventures of Private Pagett. With Eight Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. First edition. Octavo. (7 5/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 185 x 122 mm). [12], 242, [2] pp. Eight half-tone plates by Rackham. Publisher's orange-red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover and spine. Minimal rubbing to extremities, light marginal foxing throughout. Complete with the very scarce publisher's light gray pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy - the first in dust jacket that we have ever seen. "There is nothing serious about the stories of Mr. Pagett, ex-private of Marines, and some of them are very amusing. The most entertaining in the book is the account of "The Lower-Deck Tantum Club," (pp. 97-127) which spread confusion through the whole of Malta by driving a "… Read More