PART ONE - FAIRY TALES, FABLES AND FOLK TALES
29. RACKHAM, Arthur; SHAKE- SPEARE, William A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Heinemann, 1908. First edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and vignette to upper cover. Forty tipped in colour plates, mounted on art paper, under captioned tissue guards. A near fine copy. [43578] £650
30. ROBINSON, William Heath; PER- RAULT, Charles; JOHNSON, A. E. [trans.] OLD-TIME STORIES Told by Master Charles Perrault Constable, 1921. First Heath Robinson edition, first issue. 4to. Red cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt and white illustrated roundel to up- per cover. Top edge red. Six colour plates mounted onto art paper, plus forty-three illustrations in line, many full page. A very good copy indeed, the spine only a little faded. [43827] £395 31. ROBINSON, Thomas Heath; BLYTON, Enid THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE Newnes, [1930]. First edition. Four colour plates by Thomas Heath Robinson and four full page line drawings. A fine book, in a near fine wrapper. [43705] £125 32. ROBINSON, Thomas Heath; BLYTON, Enid TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Newnes, [1930]. First edition. Four colour plates by Thomas Heath Robinson and four full page line drawings. A near fine copy in a bright near fine dustwrapper. [43706] £125 33. ROBINSON, Thomas Heath; BLYTON, Enid THE TALES OF ROBIN HOOD Newnes, [1930]. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrap - per, with a tape mark to the spine. [43707] £65
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INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING 28. RACKHAM, Arthur THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIV- ER by John Ruskin Harrap, 1932. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Arthur Rackham with an origi- nal drawing of South-West Wind, Esquire, one of the principal characters in the story, “To Robert Hardy / from Edyth + Ar- thur Rackham / Xmas 1932.” Original pictorial card wrappers decorated in red, orange and green, in the original matching dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece with three further colour plates, in addition to numerous line draw- ings throughout the text. A near fine copy in a very good dust - wrapper. [43950] £1,750 South-West Wind, Esquire is a mischievous, magical character who visits the Black Brothers at the opening of the story, and marks the beginning of their misfortune.
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