Author: RACKHAM, Arthur; WAGNER, Richard; ARMOUR, Margaret, translator
Title: Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, the [and] Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1910. Rackham Illustrates The Ring of The Niblung First Trade Editions in Their Original Dust Jackets [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. WAGNER, Richard. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann, 1910. First trade editions. Quarto (9 13/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 249 x 187 mm.). [2, blank], ix, [1], 159, [1] pp. Thirty-four color plates, mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Fourteen drawings in black and white. Some very light offsetting from plate mounts onto blank text margins. [Together with:] [RACKHAM, Arthur, Illustrator]. WAGNER, Richard. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First trade edition. Quarto (9 13/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 249 x 184 mm.). [2, blank], ix, [1, blank], 181, [1], [1, blank], [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Thirty color plates, mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Nine drawings in black and white. The half-title in The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie reads: “The Ring of the Niblung. The Rhinegold: Prelude. The Valkyrie: First Day of the Trilogy. Siegfried: Second Day of the Trilogy. The Twilight of the Gods: Third Day of the Trilogy.” The half-title in Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods reads: “The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. Prelude: The Rhinegold. First Day of the Trilogy: The Valkyrie. Second Day of the Trilogy: Siegfried. Third Day of the Trilogy: The Twilight of the Gods.” Publisher's light brown buckram with front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, back cover stamped in blind with publisher’s device, and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained brown. Pictorial endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities, still near fine copies in their original and very scarce light brown dust jackets, pictorially printed and lettered in dark brown. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 37-38. Riall, p. 103 & p. 109. .

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