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Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by RACKHAM, Arthur; GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm; BAYNTUN of Bath; BAYNTUN of Bath

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Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by RACKHAM, Arthur; GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm; BAYNTUN of Bath; BAYNTUN of Bath

Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales

by RACKHAM, Arthur; GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm; BAYNTUN of Bath; BAYNTUN of Bath

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London: Constable & Co., 1917. One of Rackham's Crowning Achievements First Trade Edition Bound by Bayntun of Bath [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm. [BAYNTUN of Bath, binders]. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales. London: Constable & Co., 1917. First trade edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in; 243 x 186 mm). xi, [1], 250, [1], [1, blank] pp. Twelve color plates tipped-in on grey stock with captions, forty-three black and white drawings. Bound ca. 1960 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed) in full blue calf with double-ruled borders, decorated compartments with central gilt vignette. Spine labels in brown and tan morocco. Gilt dentelles. Cockerell endpapers. Top edge gilt. A few plates with faint crease at corner, otherwise a fine copy. "...it was during these years that he illustrated a new Brothers Grimm title, Little Brother and Little Sister which is in effect one of his crowning achievements. In these twelve colour plates we find the most astonishing versatility of style, and an exquisite pitch of execution. The style ranges from the delicate to the virtual burlesque caricature. On the one hand is an example of pre-Raphaelite, infinitely tender portrayals of womanhood, such as 'The True Sweetheart', or the delicate realism of Maid Maleen and her waiting woman escaping from the terrible tower of her father. Yet within the same book we find the classic Rackhamerie of the gnome with his beard caught in the cleft of the semi-anthropomorphized tree, appealing to Rose-red and Snow-white for help and the Hassell-like custard-pie of the three soldiers and the long nose. This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single-colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest." (Gettings. Arthur Rackham, pp. 116-117). Lattimore and Haskell, p. 46. Riall, p. 129.

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Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm; Rackham, Arthur [Illustrator]

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by The Brothers Grimm; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Cloth stained, hinges cracked, corner wear. Bit of crayon coloring to endpage illustration; crayon check marks to title page. One tipped-in plate missing; some plates have bit of creasing to corners. ; quarto; 251 pages .
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by BROTHERS GRIMM. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.)

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London:: Constable & Co Ltd.,, [1917].. First trade edition.. publisher's green cloth.. The cloth of this copy is quite damaged, discolored and separating from the front board to a depth of about two inches around the outside edge. The illustrated front endsheet is dampstained and the rear free endpaper tanned. There is a very slight dampstain to the reverse of the frontispiece mount; otherwise the plates and text are all fine.. Folio,. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 tipped-in color plates and other illustrations in black and white..
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Constable & Co 1917. FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, deckled page edges, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, xi + 251pp, illus/plates- all present, scruffy but worth the effort! (heavy fraying & scuffing to extrems, 21cm crack to rear hinge, moderate chafing to boards, boards v shaky but attached, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, ffep completely missing, light foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, v heavy cracking to gutters)
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London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1917. 4to, xi, 251 pp. 12 tipped in color plates, 43 black and white illustrations, some of which have been colored in, likely by a child. Original green cloth boards, with gilt title and vignettes to upper board and backstrip. Cloth rubbed and split along rear joint, small stain on upper board, text pages spotted, joints soft, plates in very good condition. § First trade edition. This was one of Rackham’s most successful books, mixing black-and-white vignettes of great charm and subtlety with color plates that are vintage Rackham. “It was during these years that he illustrated a new Brothers Grimm title, Little Brother and Little Sister which is in effect one of his crowning achievements... This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single-colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest." (Gettings, Arthur Rackham, pp. 116-117). Lattimore and Haskell, p. 46.
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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES

by [RACKHAM, Arthur] GRIMM BROTHERS

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London: Constable & Co. Ltd., (1917). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Scattered foxing and soiling internally, text mostly clean and plates fine; 1976 owner inscription; spine is a bit rubbed with a few tears along the edge and wear to the head. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, all but one with tissue guards, as well as a number of black-and-white drawings, many also full-page.
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by RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm

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London: Constable & Co. Ltd,, 1917. First trade edition, first impression. A publisher's note describes how this collection, "together with the selection we published some years ago... make a total of one hundred stories which include, it is thought, all the best of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" (p. v). Hudson remarks that in this book "Rackham added forty more stories by the Brothers Grimm to the sixty which he had already illustrated, his inspiration showing no decline" (Hudson, pp. 106-8). Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Mounted colour frontispiece and 11 similar plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Neat ownership initials "H. S. E." and December 1917 prize inscription on front pastedown awarding this copy to one Joyce Tankard, with his bookplate on verso. Cloth bright and square, trivial rubbing at extremities, outer leaves and edges foxed, contents clean. A very good copy. Latimore &… Read More
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Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.

by RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). The Brothers Grimm

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Constable, London., 1917. First edition: one of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Quarto. pp xii, 251. Thirteen tipped-in colour plates, as well as many other illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt-decorated buckram title-label to front. Top edge gilt. Lacks, as so often, the envelope containing a separate plate.Free endpapers tanned. Dent to top edge of front cover. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good.
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London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. No. 193 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. 4to, 30 by 24 cm. xi, [1], 251 pp. 13 tipped-in color plates, plus plenty of Rackham b/w illustrations interspersed in text. Without Rackham inserted envelope with signed plate, though. Publisher's cloth. Clean, bright copy.
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