Author: RACKHAM, Arthur; EVANS, C.S.
Title: Sleeping Beauty. The
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1920. Signed Limited Edition One of 625 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. EVANS, C.S. The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. [1920]. First American Edition de Luxe, limited to 625 copies (of which 100 are reserved for the United States of America) signed by Arthur Rackham (this being No. 593). Large Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 289 x 226 mm.). 110, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. With an additional color silhouette drawing not found in the trade edition. Color frontispiece mounted on white paper with decorative border, three double-page silhouette drawings with color, two full-page silhouette drawings with color, eight single-page silhouette drawings in black and white and forty-one silhouette drawings in the text. Very light offsetting from illustrations onto facing pages. Publisher's quarter vellum over parchment boards, front cover pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers printed in green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, corners a little rubbed, most noticeably at lower corner of front board. Overall a very good copy of this hard to find title, the offsetting far less prominent than is usually seen with this title. "The immediate aftermath of the war brought Some British Ballads (1919), and the two volumes of Cinderella (1919) and The Sleeping Beauty (1920), retold by C.S. Evans, in which his gift for silhouette was given full play-" (Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work, p. 108). Riall, p. 141; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 51/52. .
Keywords: EVANS, C.S. Illustrated Books Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition
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Title: Sleeping Beauty. The
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1920. Signed Limited Edition One of 625 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. EVANS, C.S. The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. [1920]. First American Edition de Luxe, limited to 625 copies (of which 100 are reserved for the United States of America) signed by Arthur Rackham (this being No. 593). Large Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 289 x 226 mm.). 110, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. With an additional color silhouette drawing not found in the trade edition. Color frontispiece mounted on white paper with decorative border, three double-page silhouette drawings with color, two full-page silhouette drawings with color, eight single-page silhouette drawings in black and white and forty-one silhouette drawings in the text. Very light offsetting from illustrations onto facing pages. Publisher's quarter vellum over parchment boards, front cover pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers printed in green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, corners a little rubbed, most noticeably at lower corner of front board. Overall a very good copy of this hard to find title, the offsetting far less prominent than is usually seen with this title. "The immediate aftermath of the war brought Some British Ballads (1919), and the two volumes of Cinderella (1919) and The Sleeping Beauty (1920), retold by C.S. Evans, in which his gift for silhouette was given full play-" (Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work, p. 108). Riall, p. 141; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 51/52. .
Keywords: EVANS, C.S. Illustrated Books Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition
Price: US$ 1950.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 06020
- Book number: 06020
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