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122 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920 signed copy Signed limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist.
the tales seem to have passed by some subtle alchemy into Mr Arthur Rackham’s fanciful, whimsical, imaginative drawings in colour and black-and-white”
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards in gilt, gilt pictorial title block to front board, twin rule to turn-ins in gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 colour plates, captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white illustrations. A fine copy. £3,000 [157101] 123 RHEIMS, Bettina. The Book of Olga. Hong Kong, Cologne, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo: Taschen, 2008 Limited to 1,000 copies, number 196 of 200 artist’s proofs signed by Rheims. In 2008 Rheims accepted a private commission to photograph Olga Rodionova, the wife of a Russian oligarch. With the encouragement of Rheims, the one-off commission became a continuing, increasingly more explicit project. Folio. Original red silk boards, titles to front cover and spine gilt, illustration pasted to front cover. Housed in publisher’s red silk covered clamshell box with titles to lid gilt. With the original printed packing box. Photographs throughout. Light rubbing to inside corner of clamshell box, otherwise
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and, in conclusion, “this is an ideal edition of a very characteristic old English classic”. Octavo (201 × 160 mm). Near-contemporary red calf by Bayntun (Rivière), Bath, spine with raised bands, flower, knight and shield gilt tools in compartments, covers bordered with a double gilt fillet, intricate gilt decoration on board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, black and white illustrations in text, head- and tailpieces, all by Arthur Rackham. Colour expertly retouched at tail of spine and corners, occasional spots of foxing to contents, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Latimore & Haskell, pp. 47–8; Riall, p. 130. James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: A Biography , 2010. £1,250 [158113]
near fine. £1,500
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