Author: RACKHAM, ARTHUR (1867-1939),
Title: Arthur Rakham Das Sagenbuch. [FIRST german language edition; ERSTE deutsche Auflage].
Description: Zürich, Rascher & Co., 1920. 8°. Original clothbacked blue coloured striped and decorative boards, title-label on front cover. 127pp. Coloured frontispiece tipped-in, 7 fine coloured plates tipped-in on stiff leaves, after drawings by Arthur Rackham, decorative monochrome endpieces, decorative monochrome initials, provenance on verso of ti.-p., table of contents. Limited and numbered edition of 1000 copies only, this copy bears nr. 197. FIRST german language edition of this collection of 7 myths illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Apart of some brown spots on first blank a good to very good clean copy, WITHOUT the usual foxing. (top of spine a bit knocked, cover edges a bit shaved).

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