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[London]: , [1907]. Witches and Warlocks, Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls RACKHAM, Arthur, artist. "The Lay of St. Aloys" or, Witches and Warlocks, Ghosts Goblins and Ghouls. London, [1907]. A fine, pen ink and watercolor (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 15 mm.) depicting Witches and Warlocks, Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls with a cat and other characters, with a mountain view in the background. Signed in the lower right-hand corner "A. Rackham". Matted, framed and glazed. First published as a black and white drawing, in the 1898 edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, page 465. Now reworked and colored and used as one of the 24 color plates in the 1907 edition (see note below). The tale of The Lay of St Aloys. A Legend of Blois appeared on pages 391-401 of the 1907 second and best edition of The Ingoldsby Legends or, Mirth & Marvels. Rackham had recently developed his gift for drawing witches, gnomes, fairies, and anthropomorphized trees and brought them to a pitch of vivid characterization, sometimes with an unsettling… Read More

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

[n.p.]: , 1922. A Superb Original Arthur Rackham Watercolor Drawing for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "A Wonder Book" RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939). "The Paradise of Children." London: 1922. Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing for the tinted line drawing illustrating "The Paradise of Children" ("Pandora's Box") in Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book (London: [n.d., 1922]). Signed and dated at lower right. Image size: 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm.). Matted, framed, and glazed. "Long, long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, who never had either a father or a mother; and, that he might not be lonely, another child, fatherless and motherless like himself, was sent from a far country, to live with him, and be his playfellow and helpmate. Her name was Pandora. The first thing that Pandora saw, when she entered the cottage where Epimetheus dwelt, was a great box. And almost the first question which she put to him, after crossing the threshold, was this,— ‘Epimetheus,… Read More

[London]: , 1926. Ariel, Iris, Ceres & Juno The Title-Page Design for Arthur Rackham's Illustrated Version of William Shakespeare's Play "The Tempest" RACKHAM, Arthur, artist. "Ariel, Iris, Ceres & Juno" [London, 1926]. Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing, signed "Arthur Rackham" on lower right-hand corner. The design for the title-page in the Rackham-illustrated edition of The Tempest. London: William Heinemann, Ltd. [1926]. Image and board size: 15 1/8 x 10 7/8 inches; 384 x 276 mm. Matted, framed and glazed (frame size: 25 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches; 654 x 526 mm.). The title-page drawing appeared in the book uncolored. As was often the case, Arthur Rackham has added background and full watercolor to the image in order to enhance its salability. This exquisite ethereal watercolor from Shakespeare's Tempest, depicts a pastoral scene with the airy spirit Ariel in a pale blue smock looking like it is spun from melody and fragrance. He is dancing by the side of a wispy, highly detailed tree… Read More

London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Amongst "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies (this copy being No. 77), numbered and signed by the artist. Small quarto (10 x 7 5/8 in; 254 x 193 mm). 75, (3) pp. Illustrated with three full-page mounted illustrations in color with tissue guards and twenty-three drawings in black and white. Publisher's cream cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial end papers, top edge gilt. A fine copy. In his chapter "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations 2," Getttings discusses work found within this book as reflective of the artist's maturity and confidence, Rackham's pictures "tending to be less coloured drawings...[and] gradually becoming more and more like paintings" (Gettings, Arthur Rackham, p.139). "The appearance of Eden… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. A Most Significant Copy of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens  Inscribed by J.M. Barrie to "Tootles" RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.  First edition, first impression. A remarkable presentation copy inscribed in ink on the half-title "To Joan Burnett / from her friend / J.M. Barrie / Christmas 1906"  On the verso of the half-title is another ink inscription "To dear Renée Deschamps / In loving memory of her Cousin / "Joan" / a gift from her / mother / Auntie Amy Donds / With much love to dear René / September 27 1922 / 7 New Steine Brighton / England" Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 251 x 187 mm.). xii, 125, [126] pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece and forty-nine tipped-in color plates all mounted on heavy stock dark gray paper, each with a lettered tissue-guard.  On the half-title (on the top left above the inscription) is a booksellers neat pencil note "17184 / GIKRT / $150"… 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: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1919. Never did Old Poems Appear so Gayly Bedecked than Some British Ballads..." RACKHAM, Arthur. Some British Ballads. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Co. Ltd, n.d. [1919]. Limited to 575 numbered and signed copies by the artist, this being copy no. 575. Quarto (11 1/4 x 9 inches; 286 x 229 mm.). Sixteen full color tipped-in plates with tissue guards lettered in red, twenty-four black and white drawings. Original vellum backed parchment boards, front and back cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Small 'bump' to edge of front board, otherwise a near fine copy. "Several of the Ballads in this book are based on the great work of Francis James Child..." (Note) "Few of Mr Rackham's work have been more consistently impressed with charm and beauty than his illustrations in colour to Some British Ballads. In them he pictures a succession of fascinating heroines habited in quaint and picturesque costumes, amid surroundings which,… 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: J.M. Dent & Co., 1896. The First Good Rackham" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. FITZGERALD, S.J. Adair. The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch. With Pictures by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1896. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in; 193 x 140 mm). xii, 188 pp. Seventeen full-page and twenty-four black and white text illustrations. Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved bookplate on front paste-down (which has caused light offsetting to the facing endpaper). Neat ink presentation and small "Merry Christmas" postage stamp on front free endpaper. Some very light rubbing to extremities, some light foxing or toning throughout but still an excellent copy of Rackham's first book featuring "fantastic" creatures. "It is... with the illustrations for The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch that the true Rackham fantasy begins to emerge consistently, and this might well be called the first good Rackham. Even the… Read More

London: William heinemann, 1921. With Twenty-Four Mounted Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heineman[n.d., 1921]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 550 copies (this copy being no. 215). Large quarto (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 297 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream-colored parchment boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in blue and white. Spine darkened, slight 'toning' to parchment boards, corners bumped, board edges rubbed. A fair copy - internally clean. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war,… 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: William Heinemann, 1918. Signed Limited Edition Bound by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. London: William Heinemann, [1918]. Edition Deluxe limited to 765 numbered copies signed by Arthur Rackham (this copy being no. 185). Large quarto (10 15/16 x 9 inches; 278 x 229 mm.). ix, [1], 132, [2] pp. Nine full color tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards and fifty-two black and white text illustrations. Bound ca. 1989 by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt to match the original 1918 cover design, spine paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut, original pictorial end-papers. A fine copy. The signed limited edition… 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: 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. 521. 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 near fine, partially uncut copy. Housed in the original (slightly worn) slipcase with matching limitation number to spine. 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: 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

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Arthur Rackham's "Wind in the Willows" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited to 2,020 numbered copies (this copy being No. 1315), signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 289 x 207 mm.). [2], 244, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates. "Printed at the Walpole Printing Office...The edition was designed by and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers" (Colophon). Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine, partially uncut copy. In the original publisher's olive green cardboard slipcase. "The Wind in the Willows was not published in England until 1950, but it found two publishers, one for a de luxe edition (The Limited Editions Club, New York) and one for a trade edition (The Heritage… Read More