JONKERS RARE BOOKS
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Twelve colour plates and a host of line drawings in the text. A very good copy. [43284] £1,500
23. RACKHAM, Arthur; SHAKESPEARE, William A MID- SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Heinemann, 1908. First edition. Edition de Luxe, No. 993 of 1000 copies signed by Rackham. Large 4to. Publisher’s full white vellum with gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Original silk ties (rear detached, front holding on by a thread). Housed in original card slipcase. Forty colour plates, mount- ed onto brown art paper and protected by tissue guards, and many delicate line drawings. A fine copy, with exceptionally clean vellum and bright gilt. Housed in publisher’s slipcase. [44146] £3,950 24. RACKHAM, Arthur AESOP’S FABLES Includes an Intro- duction by G.K. Chesterton Heinemann, 1912. First Rackham edition. Edition de Luxe, no. 644 of 1450 cop- ies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Full white buckram with gilt titles and vignettes on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Thirteen colour plates mounted onto brown art paper, protected by captioned tissue guards, and 53 black and white drawings. A very good example in- deed. The buckram unusually clean and bright, slightly toned to spine. [41774] £2,000 WITH A SIGNED ORIGINAL DRAWING 25. RACKHAM, Arthur THE ALLIES FAIRY BOOK Intro- duction by Edmund Gosse Heinemann, [1916]. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Arthur Rackham with an orig- inal drawing of a pixie holding a book, “To Mrs Goodheart, with kind regards, from Arthur Rackham, 6.12.16.” Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and gilt vignettes of winged goblins on the upper cover. Endpapers decorated with line drawings.
26. RACKHAM, Arthur LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SIS- TER and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm Constable, 1917. Deluxe first edition, number 334 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. Large 4to. Grey cloth with lettering and vignettes in gilt to spine and white label to upper cover with titles and gilt stamped vignette. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers, 13 mounted colour plates and 43 black and white drawings. Also present is the extra plate in its printed envelope, signed by the artist. A near fine copy. [41779] £3,000 27. RACKHAM, Arthur ENGLISH FAIRY TALES Retold by F.A. Steel Macmillan, 1918. First edition illustrated by Rackham, deluxe large paper issue. Large 4to. Number 444 of 500 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Bound in original full white vellum with gilt letter- ing and vignettes. Top edge gilt. Sixteen colour plates mount- ed onto white paper, each protected by a tissue guard with printed caption and 41 black and white drawings in the text. A near fine copy. [41773] £3,000
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