RACKHAM, Arthur; Ruskin, John

King of the Golden River, the

London: George Harrap & Co. 1932. The First English Fairy Story for Children" The First Trade Edition Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George Harrap & Co. [1932]. First trade edition. 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 color pictorial wrappers. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Covers a little bit foxed. A very good copy. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with spine mildly soiled. 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 tradition, two bad, the youngest good, and their reception of a supernatural visitor, the South West Wind. Ruskin described it himself as ‘a fairly good imitation of Grimm and Dickens, mixed with some true Alpine feeling of my own', but the South West Wind is a powerful and original character, described by Stephen Prickett [in Victorian Fantasy (1979)] as the ‘first magical personage to show that combination of kindliness and eccentric irascibility that was to appear so strongly in a whole tradition of subsequent literature'. Richard Doyle, who illustrated the original edition, made a striking drawing of him. Edgar Taylor's translation of the Grimms' stories with illustrations by George Cruikshank was published in 1823; in Praeterita Ruskin recorded how he had copied these when he was 10 or 11. The book was reissued in 1868 with an introduction by Ruskin in which he spoke of the value of the traditional tales, with their power ‘to fortify children against the glacial cold of selfish science'—a sentiment which lies at the heart of his own story" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). Latimore and Haskell, p. 67. Riall, p. 176. .

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Book number: 00865

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Ruskin, John Children's Books English Literature Illustrated Books Children's Books Illustrated Books Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

RACKHAM, Arthur; Ruskin, John

King of the Golden River, the

Philadelphia: , 1932. The First American Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. n.d. [1932]. First American trade edition. Octavo. 47, [1] pp. With four color plates and fifteen black and white drawings. Original reddish orange cloth with color pictorial label to front cover. Pictorial end-papers. Small postage stamp with ink inscription on half-title. An excellent copy in the original slightly chipped color pictorial dust jacket. 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 tradition, two bad, the youngest good, and their reception of a supernatural visitor, the South West Wind. Ruskin described it himself as ‘a fairly good imitation of Grimm and Dickens, mixed with some true Alpine feeling of my own', but the South West Wind is a powerful and original character, described by Stephen Prickett [in Victorian Fantasy (1979)] as the ‘first magical personage to show that combination of kindliness and eccentric irascibility that was to appear so strongly in a whole tradition of subsequent literature'. Richard Doyle, who illustrated the original edition, made a striking drawing of him. Edgar Taylor's translation of the Grimms' stories with illustrations by George Cruikshank was published in 1823; in Praeterita Ruskin recorded how he had copied these when he was 10 or 11. The book was reissued in 1868 with an introduction by Ruskin in which he spoke of the value of the traditional tales, with their power ‘to fortify children against the glacial cold of selfish science'—a sentiment which lies at the heart of his own story" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). Lattimore and Haskell pp. 71, Riall p. 176, Gettings pp. 180-181. .

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Book number: 02075

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Ruskin, John Illustrated Books

RACKHAM, Arthur; Ruskin, John

King of the Golden River, the

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1932. The First American Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. n.d. [1932]. First American trade edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 220 x 147 mm.). 47, [1] pp. With four color plates and fifteen black and white drawings. Publisher's reddish orange cloth with color pictorial label to front cover. Pictorial end-papers. An excellent copy in the original slightly chipped color pictorial dust jacket. 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 tradition, two bad, the youngest good, and their reception of a supernatural visitor, the South West Wind. Ruskin described it himself as ‘a fairly good imitation of Grimm and Dickens, mixed with some true Alpine feeling of my own', but the South West Wind is a powerful and original character, described by Stephen Prickett [in Victorian Fantasy (1979)] as the ‘first magical personage to show that combination of kindliness and eccentric irascibility that was to appear so strongly in a whole tradition of subsequent literature'. Richard Doyle, who illustrated the original edition, made a striking drawing of him. Edgar Taylor's translation of the Grimms' stories with illustrations by George Cruikshank was published in 1823; in Praeterita Ruskin recorded how he had copied these when he was 10 or 11. The book was reissued in 1868 with an introduction by Ruskin in which he spoke of the value of the traditional tales, with their power ‘to fortify children against the glacial cold of selfish science'—a sentiment which lies at the heart of his own story" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). Latimore and Haskell pp. 71, Riall p. 176, Gettings pp. 180-181. .

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Book number: 03906

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Ruskin, John Children's Books Illustrated Books Fairy Tales

RACKHAM, Arthur; Ruskin, John

King of the Golden River, the

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. 472. 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 few text leaves roughly opened, small inoffensive stains on endpapers. A very good copy. Housed in a green cloth clamshell case. 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 tradition, two bad, the youngest good, and their reception of a supernatural visitor, the South West Wind. Ruskin described it himself as ‘a fairly good imitation of Grimm and Dickens, mixed with some true Alpine feeling of my own', but the South West Wind is a powerful and original character, described by Stephen Prickett [in Victorian Fantasy (1979)] as the ‘first magical personage to show that combination of kindliness and eccentric irascibility that was to appear so strongly in a whole tradition of subsequent literature'. Richard Doyle, who illustrated the original edition, made a striking drawing of him. Edgar Taylor's translation of the Grimms' stories with illustrations by George Cruikshank was published in 1823; in Praeterita Ruskin recorded how he had copied these when he was 10 or 11. The book was reissued in 1868 with an introduction by Ruskin in which he spoke of the value of the traditional tales, with their power ‘to fortify children against the glacial cold of selfish science'—a sentiment which lies at the heart of his own story" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). Latimore and Haskell, p. 67. Riall, p. 176. .

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Book number: 04065

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Ruskin, John Children's Books English Literature Illustrated Books Children's Books Illustrated Books Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition

RUSKIN, JOHN; RACKHAM, ARTHUR

The King of the Golden River

London, George Harrap & Co.. 1932, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) Fine in fine dust jacket. 47pp. Exceptional copy of this charming edition of Ruskin's classic tale; 4 Rackham colour plates with numerous line drawings in text.

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Book number: 116563

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Juvenile, Arthur Rackham, Illustrated Books, Juvenile

RUSKIN, John. Illustrated by RACKHAM, Arthur. [Signed by Arthur Rackham].

The King of the Golden River.

London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. Limited edition of 570 copies, of which this in no.96, signed by Arthur Rackham, 8vo., pp.48, publisher’s full vellum in original glassine jacket, gilt, deckle-edged paper, t.e.g., 4 colour plates (including colour frontispiece), pictorial title in red and black, small vignette in red to half title, 3 further small illustrations in red, pictorial endpapers printed in green, 10 in-text illustrations in b/w; slight creasing to upper corner of front wrapper, a particularly fine copy, with light wear to glassine jacket. Housed in cream card slipcase with printed paper label to spine (with handwritten limitation number); slipcase is foxed and with slight wear to edges of paper label, and has 2cm closed tear to paper covering at rear lower corner, else vg.

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Book number: 32227

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

RUSKIN, JOHN; RACKHAM, ARTHUR [ILLUS.]

The King of the Golden River

London: George Harrap & Co Ltd, 1939. Reprint. Illustrated card cover. 230mm x 155mm (9" x 6"). 48pp. Colour frontis plate, and illustrated endpapers; b/w illustrations.. G : in good condition with attached dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to fep .

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Book number: rus31b

Catalogue: Fairy Tales

Keywords: Fairy Tales Illustrated Books

Ruskin, John (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)

The King of the Golden River.

J. B. Lippincott, N.D.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with pastedown title plate. Unmarked within, and tightly bound. Shows light shelf and edge wear. White jacket has some staining, edge, corner wear and a few chips, splits and closed tears, with a darkening spine.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

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Book number: 17259

Catalogue: Collectible Childrens

JOHN RUSKIN, ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATOR

King of the Golden River (1932) John Ruskin Arthur Rackham 1st Edition Wrapper [Hardcover] Unknown

Lippincott. hardcover. No date; circa 1930's. Dark green cloth boards, title plate adhered to front board with four color plates in lightly chipped jacket.Illustrated end papers. Tight and unmarked. F65 Please email for photos.. Collectible: Very Good .

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Book number: 117189