Cinderella by RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator; EVANS, C.S

London: William Heinemann, 1919. The First of Arthur Rackham's Two Great Silhouette BooksFirst Trade Edition in the Original Dust Jacket[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Cinderella. Retold by C.S. Evans and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1919].First trade edition.Large quarto (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 255 x 188 mm.). 110, [1, printer's imprint], [1, blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette drawings with color, thirteen single-page silhouette drawings without color, and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text. Title with color pictorial border.Original quarter orange buckram over orange boards pictorially stamped and lettered in orange on front cover and in black on spine, pictorial end-papers in green and white. A very good copy with just the mildest of offsetting from some of the illustrations to the text. Ink name on half-title. In the original gray dust jacket printed in black with the price 7/6d on the spine (jacket slightly chipped/torn at extremities and flap-folds). "Rackham gave his talk to on Silhouettes to the Art Workers' Guild in November 1919, the month in which Cinderella, the first of his two great silhouette books, was published. Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty differed from Rackhams' preceding books in relying almost wholly for their effect on silhouette. It is immediately clear that Rackham is a master of the medium, being able to evoke character and humour by profile and gesture alone, and allowing the two-dimensional effect of his pen work to lead the reader through the book and keep the story going. Silhouette books, even with additional colours had lower production costs than their colour plate equivalents, and so were an attractive option both for publishers and customers in the uncertain post-war market." (James Hamilton. Arthur Rackham, A Biography, p. 188).Latimore and Haskell, pp. 49-50. Riall, pp. 134/135. Hamilton, p. 189.