GREENAWAY, Kate

Painting Book, A.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Rare Variant Issue GREENAWAY, Kate. A Painting Book. With Outlines from her Various Works for Girls & Boys to Paint. London: George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.1884]. Later edition, a rare variant unrecorded in Schuster and Engen. Octavo (9 x 6 7/8 in; 229 x 178 mm). 80, [2, blank] pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. White glazed color-pictorial wrappers with "One Shilling" at upper margin and "George Routledge & Sons" within lower border. Borders are blue outlined in black. Advertisement on rear wrapper listing illustration sources. A bit of light soiling otherwise an unusually attractive copy. "Kate's publishers continued to exploit her popularity, and at the end of 1884 several gift books had appeared for the Christmas trade. [Renowned color printer] Evans and Routledge chose a selection of line blocks from previous successes to make the Kate Greenaway Painting Book, and printed 40,000 copies" (Engen), despite which few in this, a later (and rarer) edition in wrappers of slightly smaller size than the first edition issue in wrappers, have survived in collectable condition. Cf. Schuster and Engen 149.2b. Engen p. 116. .

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Book number: 01402

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books

GREENAWAY, Kate; HARTE, Bret

Queen of the Pirate Isle, the

London: Chatto and Windus, 1886. A Presentation Copy In the Incredibly Rare Original Printed Dust Jacket GREENAWAY, Kate (artist). HARTE, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: Chatto and Windus, 1886. First edition, binding A. Presentation Copy from the Author to Lady Alfred Paget signed and dated London December 2d, 1886. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in; 216 x 159 mm). 58 pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-seven text illustrations in color by Kate Greenaway. All edges gilt. Publisher's original tan cloth, covers pictorially decorated in colors (the front cover with the illustration from page 13, the lower cover with the illustration from page 16), all edges gilt. Cloth a little bit soiled, lower corner of rear board with small loss of cloth. In the incredibly rare original gray paper pictorial dust jacket, printed in brown. The jacket has been miraculously and almost invisibly backed by the master book restorer, Bruce Levy. A spectacular presentation copy, as rare as can be in the original dust jacket. Of the twenty-four copies to come to auction within the last thirty-six years only four were in Binding A, only one possessed the dust jacket, and not a single one was signed. "Mr. Bret Harte has written a children's Christmas book, with the alluring title of "The Queen of the Pirate Isle," which will be illustrated by twenty-five [28] drawings by Miss Kate Greenaway, printed in colors in the text. The result of this combination of one of the most English of artists with one of the most American of authors will be awaited with unusual interest" (The Nation, Vol. 43, No. 1102, August 12, 1886, p. 138). The Queen of the Pirate Isle is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California - a milieu that features in almost all of Bret Harte's work. The four young protagonists - imaginative Polly (the "Queen"), her cousin Hickory Hunt, their Chinese "page" Wan Lee, and neighbor-boy Patsey - are all children, have extremely vivid imaginations, and Harte relates their adventures playing pirate - in fantasy, dream, and reality. Bret Harte lived in London from the 1880s through his death in 1902. Lady Alfred Paget, née Cecilia Wyndham (1830-1914) "a woman of remarkable intellectual powers" (NY Times obituary, May 4, 1914), was a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria (who was godmother to one of the Paget children), and owned Chateau Garibondy on the Riviera in the south of France where she entertained royalty and the intellectual cream of Great Britain. She likely met Harte at one of his popular London lectures, always attended by a distinguished audience. BAL 7337. Sharnhorst 902. Schuster and Engen 165.1f. .

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Book number: 01728

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: HARTE, Bret Illustrated Books Christmas Color Printing Signed Copies

LEAR, Edward; GLASS, Dudley

Nonsense Songs

London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1935. Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs" Set to Music by Dudley Glass LEAR, Edward. Nonsense Songs. Set to Music by Dudley Glass. All the Original Pictures. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. [ca. 1935]. Early reprint (first published 1934). Large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 302 x244 mm.). 24 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Original orange cloth over orange paper boards, front cover pictorially decorated in black. Original pictorial orange dust jacket printed in black, some tape strengthening but complete. Contains: The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly and The Jumblies, etc. etc. .

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Book number: 02952

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: GLASS, Dudley Illustrated Books Music Illustrated Books Music

MANUSCRIPT; AUNTIE EDIE

Nursery Rhymes for "Jim" at Bed-Time

London?: , 1924. A Charming Hand Colored Manuscript Containing Five of our Favorite Nursery Rhymes [MANUSCRIPT] AUNTIE EDIE. Nursery Rhymes for "Jim" at Bed-Time. From: "Auntie Edie" 18.7.24. [London?], 1924. Oblong quarto (8 x 11 3/8 inches; 202 x 290 mm.). [5] leaves (including wrappers). Richly illustrated throughout in ink and watercolor with accompanying manuscript nursery rhymes and musical scores in ink. Original stiff paper wrappers, illustrated and lettered in watercolor and ink, signed "Aunt Edie" and dated July 18, 1924. Sewn with purple cord. Wrappers and each leaf (also of the same stiff paper stock) neatly bordered with decorative tape resembling leather. Two leaves loose, minimal foxing and or dust soiling. Together with the original (very worn) mailing envelope addressed (presumably) to Jim's father in the Brockley area of South London. A remarkably bright manuscript collection of nursery rhymes by a skilled artist. The classic nursery rhymes included here are "Jack and Jill," "Little Miss Muffet," "Simple Simon," "Little Jack Horner," and "Hey Diddle Diddle." We were unable to find any information about Aunt Edie, but she was clearly a skilled artist with a charming and remarkably detailed style. We also could not locate any more information on the young Jim and his family. .

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Book number: 05534

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: AUNTIE EDIE Original Art Manuscripts

POP-UP; MEGGENDORFER, Lothar

Das Puppenhaus

Essingen & Munich: F.F. Schreiber, 1911. A Fantastic Movable Pop-Up Panorama Dolls house by Lothar Meggendorfer MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Das Puppenhaus [The Dolls House]. Eine Festgabe für brave Mädchen [A Celebration for good Girls]. No. 109. Essingen & Munich: F.F. Schreiber, no date, circa 1911. Oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; 215 x 260 mm.). Five fine full-color lithographed pop-up scenes. A few inconsequential creases and a few small expert repairs, otherwise near fine. Publisher's glazed color pictorial boards with original red cloth hinges. a wonderful example of this very rare toy. This pop-up panorama opens to form five scenes some of which need opening or unfolding by the child. There are two outside and three detailed interior rooms of a doll's house. As unfolded to its full length of four feet, people, furniture, and even fixtures pop-out and each of the scenes is rich in detail. There is even a piano with a bust of Beethoven on the top. See Haining (pp. 122-128) who reproduces the French edition of the entire panorama called Maison de Poupée. Due to its popularity it was issued over the years with a few changes to reflect the times; for instance the gypsy cart is replaced here by a motor car. It is rare to find any mechanical that has survived the little hands of children, in such wonderful condition. This is certainly one of the most elaborate and charming of the mechanicals issued by Lothar Meggendorfer. The five movable scenes are as follows: 1. A two-sided corner scene showing the exterior of two houses. On the left is a motor car and several people, and on the right in front of a house with a clear plastic window and an opening door are two pop-up figures, a woman with a flask of wine on a tray and a man standing holding his bicycle. 2. A three-sided shop scene with an opening door and a clear plastic window on the left wall, A pop-up shopkeeper and [his wife] behind a pop-up framed counter. In front of the counter is a pop-up woman customer with her small child and a dog. On the right hand wall are three pop-up barrels and also an opening door. 3. A three-sided wood-paneled room with an opening door on the left. Two pop-up women, one holding a small child are seated at a pop-up table. On the right wall is a pop-up pianoforte with a bust of Beethoven above and a small pop-up seated boy playing. There is also an opening door. 4. A three-sided 'kitchen scene' with an opening door on the left wall, a pop-up kitchen cabinet and stove with a mother, daughter and small cat, and on the right-hand wall a small pop-up desk with a bin and a washing basket. There is also an opening door. 5. A two-sided corner 'courtyard' scene with an opening door on the left and a pop-up woman (replaced head) and her child standing in front of a gated fence, feeding birds. There is also a pop-up dog and a pop-up of three chickens. See Haining pp. 122-128. .

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Book number: 04372

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: MEGGENDORFER, Lothar Illustrated Books Books in German Movable Books

MOVABLE BOOK; MEGGENDORFER, Lothar

Schau Mich an! [Look at Me!]

Munich: Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, 1888. A Rare and Early Meggendorfer Movable MOVABLE BOOK. MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Schau mich an! [Look at me!]. Ein Ziehbilderbuch von Lothar Meggendorfer. Esslingen - Stuttgart, [1888]. First German edition. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/2 inches; 254 x 343 mm.). [10] pp. (including foreword and advertisements at end). Eight colored lithograph plates with movable parts (included in pagination), each with a tab to set the scene in motion. The eight moveables are all original, completely functional and in excellent condition. The 'pull' tabs have all been replaced. There are some expertly repaired short closed tears where the tabs come through the pages and a few mainly marginal light stains. Publisher's gray boards with color pictorial label on front pane, red cloth backstrip, Light wear to board edges and corners. A wonderful example of this very rare and early title. Housed in a fleece-lined, half black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. An excellent example of a rare Meggendorfer title.. In over fifty years of specializing in Children's Books including Movables I have never seen this title before (DJB). The movable plates: 1. St. Niklas kommt! (St. Nicholas is coming) 2. Das Duett (The Duet) 3. Die Zimmerleute (The Carpenters) 4. Der horrische Esel (The obstinate donkey) 5. In der kinderstube (In the nursery) 6. Beim Friseur (At the Hairdresser) 7. Hausmusik (House music) 8. Der gefoppte Ami (The teased friend) The title of Meggendorfer's Schau mich an! (Look at me!) plays on the potentially uncanny relationship between actual life and the life-like mechanisms between the book's covers. It would appear that the English edition of Look at me! did not appear until three years later in 1891. "Meggendorfer's reputation today is based almost solely on his ingenious mechanical picture-books for children. These he began to design during the late 1880s, and many of these books went into multiple German editions besides translations into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. Deservedly, he is considered the creator and chief innovator of moveable toy books, and his printed works are eagerly sought after by collectors of historical children's literature. He produced books with moveable figures, transformation pictures segmented into three parts and thus interchangeable, books with pop-up designs, rotating wheels as well as four-panel slat pictures which change the illustrations through movement, and simply funny picture books for children that would certainly make them laugh and generally contributed to some educational benefit" (Justin G. Schiller's Introduction to The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer). "There is little doubt that the most elaborate and ingenious movables ever produced were those of the German Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925) made during the 1880s and 1890s..the mechanisms and operations of Meggendorfer's books—not to mention the originality of his figures—are far superior to any others published before or since. The devices that operated the various figures in Meggendorfer's books consisted of a series of inter-connecting cardboard levers sandwiched between the coloured illustration on the front of the oblong leaf and the dummy pasted behind it. The animated limbs and heads were cut-out models on the front of the picture, and moving the tab set the whole scene in motion" (Haining, Movable Books, pp. 65-73). .

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Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: MEGGENDORFER, Lothar Illustrated Books Books in German Color Printing Movable Books

MORAINE, Louis-Pierre-René de

Album Militaire de L'Armée Francaise En Action

Paris: J. Vermot, 1860. The Soldiers of the French Army Thirty-Two Hand Colored Plates MORAINE, Louis-Pierre-René de. [Album Militaire de l'Armée Francaise en Action.] [150 Sujets lithographiés par de Moraine.] Paris: J. Vermot, [1860]. First edition. Small quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches; 267 x 207 mm.). Sixteen unnumbered leaves printed on both sides. Thirty-two pages each with several hand-colored lithographed images depicting the soldiers of the French Army, totaling one hundred and thirteen illustrations. Bound by Laurenchet in late twentieth century full plum diced calf, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Louis Pierre René De Moraine (1816-1864). French painter and lithographer. The Plates: 1. Dîner offert par le Price Impérial, Aux enfants de troupe du 1er Regiment des Grenadiers de la Garde. / Le nouveau petit Caporal. / Le premier equipage du Prince Impérial. Dinner offered by the Price Imperial, to the children of the troops of the 1st Regiment of the Grenadiers of the Guard. / The new little Corporal. / The first crew of the Prince Imperial. 2. L'Empereur Napoléon III, passant une revue. / Officier d'ordonnance de l'Empereur. / Général, Aide-de-Camp de l'Empereur. The Emperor Napoleon III reviewing. / Orderly officer of the Emperor. / General, Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor. 3. Maréchal de France. / Général de Division. / Capitaine d'État major. / Général de Division (Tenue de guerre). Marshal of France. / Division general. / Staff Captain. / General of Division (War dress). 4. Cent-Garde (Tenue de Palais). / Cent-Garde (En faction). / Cent-Garde (Tenue de ville). / Cent-Garde, Porte-Étendard. Hundred Guard (Palace Dress). / Hundred Guard (On duty). / Cent Garde (City outfit). / Hundred Guard, Standard Bearer. 5. Marche des Lanciers de la Garde Impériale. / Lancier de la Garde Impériale. / Lancier. March of the Lancers of the Imperial Guard. / Lancer of the Imperial Guard. / Throw. 6. Hussards en campagne. / Officier de Hussards. / Guirde ou Hussard de la Gde Impériale. Hussars in the field. / Officer of Hussars. / Guard or Hussar of the Imperial Guard. 7. Cuirassier, Garde Impériale. / Trompette de Cuirassiers, Gde. Impériale. / Carabinier. / Cuirassier. Cuirassier, Imperial Guard. / Cuirassier trumpet, Imperial Guard. / Rifleman. / Cuirassier. 8. Avant-garde des Dragons de l'Impératrice (Gde Impériale). / Dragon. / Dragon de la Garde Impériale. Vanguard of the Empress' Dragoons (Imperial Command). / Dragon. / Dragon of the Imperial Guard. 9. Chasseurs à cheval. / Chasseur à cheval de la Garde Impériale. / Chasseur au bivouac. Hunters on horseback. / Mounted Chasseur of the Imperial Guard. / Hunter at the bivouac. 10. Artillerie à pied à cheval. / Train d'Artillerie. / Artilleur en campagne. Mounted foot artillery. / Artillery train. / Artilleryman in the field. 11. Génie. / Soldat du Génie; Grande Tenue. / Soldat du Génie; Tenue de tranchée. Genius. / Engineer; Great Outfit. / Engineer; Trench outfit. 12. École Polytechnique. / École d'État-major. / École de St. Cyr. / École de Saumur. Polytechnic university. / School of Staff. / School of St. Cyr. / School of Saumur. 13. Cantinière. / Sapeur. / Vétéran. / Invalide. Canteen. / Sapper. / Veteran. / Invalid. 14. Marche d'Infanterie. / Grenadier (défendant une soeur). / Infanterie, Tenue d'hiver (en Crimée). Infantry march. / Grenadier (defending a sister). / Infantry, Winter Dress (in Crimea). 15. Garde Imple Grenadier (Grande tenue). / Garde Impériale, Grenadier (Tenue de Campagne). / Officier de Zouaves (Garde Impériale). / Zouave (Garde Impériale). Imple Grenadier Guard (Full Dress). / Imperial Guard, Grenadier (Field Dress). / Officer of Zouaves (Imperial Guard). / Zouave (Imperial Guard). 16. Voltigeurs (Garde Impériale). / Chasseur à pied (Garde Impériale) (Tenue de campagne). / Chasseur à pied (Garde Impériale). Voltigeurs (Imperial Guard). / Chasseur on foot (Imperial Guard) (Field dress). / Hunter on foot (Imperial Guard). 17. Chirurgien major. / Infirmier. / Pharmacien. / Vétérinaire. Major surgeon. / Male nurse. / Pharmacist. / Veterinary. 18. Tambour-major. / Tambour. / Porte-Drapeau. / Colonel. Drum major. / Drum. / Flag bearer. / Colonel. 19. Garde Impériale, Génie (Grande tenue). / Garde Imple, Génie (Tenue detranchée). / Garde Impériale, Génie (Petitetenue). / Garde Imple, Officier du Génie (Grande Tenue). Imperial Guard, Engineers (Full Dress). / Imperial Guard, Genie (Severed Outfit). / Imperial Guard, Engineers (Undressed). / Imperial Guard, Engineering Officer (Full Dress). 20. Artillerie à pied (Garde Impériale). / Artillerie à cheval (Garde Impériale). / Train des Équipages (Garde Impériale). / Officier d'Artillerie (Garde Impériale). Artillery on foot (Imperial Guard). / Horse Artillery (Imperial Guard). / Crew Train (Imperial Guard). / Artillery Officer (Imperial Guard). 21. Amiral. / Capitaine de Vaisseau. / Capitaine de Corvette. / Enseigne de Vaisseau. Admiral. / Ship Captain. / Corvette Captain. / Ensign of Ship. 22. Élève de 2me Classe. / Matelot. / Matelot (Tenue d'abordage). / Infanterie de Marine. 2nd class student. / Sailor. / Sailor (boarding outfit). / Marine Infantry. 23. Chasseurs à pied en Tirailleurs. / Chasseur à pied. / Officier de Chasseurs à pied. Hunters on foot in Skirmishers. / Hunter on foot. / Foot Chasseur Officer. 24. Zouave. / Chasseur d'Afrique.. / Turcos. / Spahis. Zouave. / Hunter of Africa.. / Turcos. / Spahis. 25. Sapeurs-Pompiers de la ville de Paris. / Garde de Paris, à pied. / Garde de Paris, à cheval. Firefighters of the city of Paris. / Paris Guard, on foot. / Guard of Paris, on horseback. 26. Gendarmerie à cheval de la Garde: (Pour le service des résidences Impériales). / Gendarmerie à pied (Garde Impériale) (Petite tenue). / Gendarmerie à pied (Garde Impériale) (Grande tenue). Mounted Police of the Guard: (For the service of the Imperial residences). / Gendarmerie on foot (Imperial Guard) (Undress). / Gendarmerie on foot (Imperial Guard) (Full dress). 27. Sapeur-Pompier (Garde-nationale). / Garde national en faction. / Artillerie de la Garde nationale. / Garde-national à cheval. Firefighter (National Guard). / National Guard on duty. / Artillery of the National Guard. / National Guard on horseback. 28. Gendarmerie départementale (en Correspondance). / Gendarmerie de la Seine à pied. / Gendarmerie de la Seine, à cheval. Departmental Gendarmerie (in correspondence). / Gendarmerie of the Seine on foot. / Gendarmerie of the Seine, on horseback. 29. Commandant de Place. / Officier d'administration. / Intendant Militaire. / Sous-Intendant Militaire. Local Commander. / Administrative officer. / Military intendant. / Military Sub-Intendant. 30. Train des Parcs. / Corps de la Remonte. / Ouvrier d'Administration. / Cavalier veteran. Parks train. / Body of the Remonte. / Administration Worker. / Veteran rider. 31. Douanier, petite tenue. / Officier des Domaines. / Douanier, Grande tenue. Customs officer, undress. / Officer of the Domains. / Customs officer, full dress. 32. Douanier, Garde-côtes. / Voltigeur Corse. / Légion étrangère. / Gendarmerie d'Afrique. Customs, Coast Guard. / Corsican acrobat. / Foreign Legion. / African Gendarmerie. Colas 2139; Glasser, p. 336; Hiler, p. 630; Not in Bobins or Lipperheide. .

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Book number: 05392

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Color-Plate Books Caricatures French History Naval and Military

PYLE, Howard, illustrator; SEITZ, Don C.

Buccaneers Rough Verse, the

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! They Smell the Blood of an Englishman" With a Color Frontispiece by Howard Pyle A Presentation Copy from the Author [PYLE, Howard, illustrator]. SEITZ, Don C. The Buccaneers Rough Verse. By Don C. Seitz. With frontispiece and decorations by Howard Pyle. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 147 mm.). xii, 53, [1 blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece and two text illustrations. Publishers black cloth, front cover with an additional Howard Pyle color plate (a smaller version of the color plate "Buried Treasure" from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1921) pasted on, lettered in gilt. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the author to the American impressionist painter George Wharton Edwards. A near fine copy. Containing thirty-two 'Pirate Poems'. Four of these first appeared in the January 1911 issue of Harper's Magazine. Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 - November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. .

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Book number: 02961

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: SEITZ, Don C. Illustrated Books Inscribed Copies Pirates

RACKHAM, Arthur; HUDSON, Derek

Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work

London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1960. The Most Beautifully Produced of all the Rackham Bibliographies [RACKHAM, Arthur]. HUDSON, Derek. Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work. London: William Heinemann Ltd. [1960]. First edition. Large quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 216 mm.). [1]-181, [3 blank] pp. Seventy illustrations including 41 mounted plates, the majority in full color. Publisher's maroon buckram, front cover decoratively stamped in black, spine with black label lettered in gilt decorative endpapers, top edge stained blue. A near fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket with a couple of closed tears. "For more than half a century Arthur Rackham's illustrations have cast their spell on adults and children alike. They possess qualities which make a work live: faultless draughtsmanship allied to an imagination which may be delicate or grotesque, but is always original and illuminating. Derek Hudson introduces us to the man behind the work and comments on his technique and achievements, often illustrating his point with reproductions of Rackham's own drawings or plates. Throughout the book he mentions all of Rackham's most important work which has appeared in print, and there is also a very full checklist. The book is therefore invaluable to those (and their number is growing) who collect Rackham originals and first editions. The many beautiful colour plates however, make this a book not for the collector only but for all admirers of Rackham, both those who come to him afresh today and those who have always delighted in his unique appeal." (Dust jacket front flap). .

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Book number: 05072

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: HUDSON, Derek Illustrated Books Bibliography

RACKHAM, Arthur; PERRAULT, Charles

Cendrillon

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919. The First of Arthur Rackham's Two Great Silhouette Books The French Edition de Luxe [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. PERRAULT, Charles. Cendrillon. D'Apres Ch. Perrault avec illustrations par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1919]. French Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is no. 96. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 226 mm.). 110, [2, blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette drawings with color, one single-page silhouette drawing with color (not included in the trade edition), thirteen single-page silhouette drawings without color, and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text. Title with color pictorial border. Title-page slightly browned from frontispiece tissue-guard. Some very light occasional offsetting from illustrations to text. Original cream parchment over boards, pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial end-papers in green and white. Boards very slightly 'mottled' otherwise a fine copy. "Rackham gave his talk to on Silhouettes to the Art Workers' Guild in November 1919, the month in which Cinderella, the first of his two great silhouette books, was published. Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty differed from Rackhams' preceding books in relying almost wholly for their effect on silhouette. It is immediately clear that Rackham is a master of the medium, being able to evoke character and humour by profile and gesture alone, and allowing the two-dimensional effect of his pen work to lead the reader through the book and keep the story going. Silhouette books, even with additional colours had lower production costs than their colour plate equivalents, and so were an attractive option both for publishers and customers in the uncertain post-war market." (James Hamilton. Arthur Rackham, A Biography, p. 188). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 49-50. Riall, pp. 134-135. Hamilton, p. 189. .

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Book number: 04596

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: PERRAULT, Charles Illustrated Books Books in French Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition

RACKHAM, Arthur; PHILLPOTTS, Eden

Dish of Apples, A.

London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Amongst "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations" In the Scarce Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. First trade edition. Octavo (6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in; 205 x 170 mm). 75, (3) pp. Illustrated with three full-page mounted illustrations in color with tissue guards and twenty-three drawings in black and white. Publisher's original rose-gray cloth pictorially stamped in brown. Gray pictorial end papers. Former owners bookplate on front paste-down. A very good copy. Original pictorial dust jacket reproducing in three colors the design on the front cover. Top of spine and small piece chipped away from top panel of jacket with loss of the "A" and the "D" in A Dish of Apples. In his chapter "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations 2," Getttings discusses work found within this book as reflective of the artist's maturity and confidence, Rackham's pictures "tending to be less coloured drawings..[and] gradually becoming more and more like paintings" (Gettings, Arthur Rackham, p.139). "The appearance of Eden Phillpotts' A Dish of Apples brought a characteristically appreciative letter from its author to the artist: 'I am immensely pleased at the charm & originality of your most attractive drawings. The humor of them especially drew me.' Rackham was achieving a new harmony of colour, his drawings for A Dish of Apples, to quote an American admirer Martin Birnbaum, being 'light and sparkling with a passionate rose, glowing greens and primrose yellow'' (Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, pp. 118-119. Latimore and Haskell, p. 54. Riall, p. 144. Gettings, p. 179. Hudson, p. 170. .

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Book number: 03537

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: PHILLPOTTS, Eden. Children's Books Fairy Tales Illustrated Books Illustrated Books Poetry

RACKHAM, Arthur; INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham)

Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels, the

London: J.M.Dent & Co. 1907. The Second and Best Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: J.M. Dent & Co.1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 251 x 193 mm.). Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. Original green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, tope edge gilt, others uncut. Mild wear to cloth boards, but still a very good copy. "In 1898 Messrs. Dent and Co. first published 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' with about one hundred illustrations of mine. This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publisher's have felt with me that, with the addition of new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour. "To this end the following has been done: "The frontispiece and the coloured illustration facing page 508 have been specially drawn, and all the other illustrations in colour have been worked on to a considerable extent, and specially coloured for this edition. A few illustrations in the earlier edition have been omitted and in their place have been added those facing page 254 and on pages vi, 25, 37, 316, 320, and 333. "Many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again - those which have been worked on to any great extent being now signed with both dates, 1898 and 1907. Of the rest, reproductions on a larger scale have been made in all but a few cases, and the text has been revised and entirely reset for this edition' (Rackham, Prefatory Note). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 30-31. Riall, p. 83. .

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Book number: 03532

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Keywords: INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham) Illustrated Books Children's Books Signed Limited Edition Illustrated Books 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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RACKHAM, Arthur; FORD, Julia Ellsworth BYNNER, Witter RIDGWAY, Arthur (Music)

Snickerty Nick

Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1935. Snickerty Nick with the Music Near Fine in original Printed Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick & the Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur Ridgway. Los Angeles San Franciso: Sutton House, [1935]. [Third edition, the first with the music included]. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches; 242 x 183 mm.). [viii], [1]-81, [1, blank], [83]-132 pp. Three full-page monotone plates (facing pp. 16, 20 & 42), eight full-page black & white drawings and two line drawings. Original 'bright yellow' cloth with pictorial stamping in black on the front cover in black. A near fine copy in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket, some light chipping to extremities, some tiny tape repairs, otherwise an excellent example of a dust jacket that we have never seen before. The differences between this and the 1933 edition are as follows: The title-page of the 1933 edition has the imprint Suttonhouse: Los Angeles 1933 whilst the 1935 edition has Suttonhouse Los Angeles San Francisco and no date (the date 1935 is on the verso of the title-page]. The text and illustrations are identical but the 'Suggestion for Production' p. 77- 80 (in the 1933 edition), has now been changed and extended to p. 81. Following p. 81 is an additional title-page for the music which follows from p. 85 through p. 132. "The idea of the Selfish Giant in this play has been taken from the story of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. Spring would not come to his garden because he would not let the children play in it. It was always winter there. One morning he woke up hearing the music of a linnet singing in his garden. He jumped out of bed and saw a most wonderful sight, "flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing," and in every tree was a little child; but one little boy was too tiny to climb the tree and the Giant's heart melted and he helped the little child into the tree. The little child kissed him and forever after the children played in the Giant's garden, because his heart had softened through love of the little child. The children never saw the child again. But one day he came to the Giant, who saw on the palms of the child's hands "the prince of two nails and the prince of two nails were on the little feet". The little child had come to take the Giant to play in his garden, "which is Paradise." My indebtedness to this story is the character of the Selfish Giant. The little play of Snickerty Nick is not a dramatization of The Selfish Giant. The character of Snickerty Nick is an original character and the play centers around him. The little boy is only a loving and beloved child, and Spring and Winter are personified by faeries and gnomes. To Arthur Rackham I tender my most sincere thanks whose magic touch, as in Peter Pan, Grimm's Faery Tales and Undine, making real all faeries and gnomes, endears all child life to grown-ups as well as to children." (Forward by Julia Ellsworth Ford). This edition with the music not recorded in Riall In over fifty-five years of specializing in the work of Arthur Rackham I have never seen the 1933 edition, and I have only seen this 1935 edition once before - this copy which I sold in 1989. According to Riall (see p. 180) the 1933 edition is listed as a "reprint of 1919 edition, with same coloured illustrations. Bound in bright yellow cloth.. 3 full page illustrations in full colour. 8 drawings in black and white. This edition has the music added at the end of the book." OCLC locates just seven copies of the 1933 edition and twelve copies of the 1935 edition in libraries and institutions worldwide - none of the copies cited have any bibliographical details other than the book has 80 pp. (1933) or 132 pp. (1935). Both of these editions are unknown to The Arthur Rackham Society. The two books were produced in 1933 & 1935 to accompany the first Hollywood production of Snickerty Nick on April 8th, 1933. Julia Ellsworth Ford's famous little 'folk' play was directed by Pauline Parker. .

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Book number: 04912

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: FORD, Julia Ellsworth BYNNER, Witter RIDGWAY, Arthur (Music) Illustrated Books Music Plays

RACKHAM, Arthur; SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles

Springtide of Life, the

London : William Heinemann, 1918. First Trade Edition in the Original Printed Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1918]. First trade edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 7 3/16 inches; 248 x 183 mm). Eight full-page color plates with tissue guards. Fifty-two black and white text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge stained green. Inner hinges very slightly cracked but firm. A bright and near fine copy in the original green printed dust jacket. "[Rackham's] drawings for Swinburne's poems of childhood, The Springtide of Life..attracted the admiration of Edmund Gosse, who expressed his appreciation in a preface and told Rackham personally (18th October 1918: 'This volume will not merely be the best book of the present art-season, but a joy to all sensitive people for years and years to come'" (Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 108). "As the close of his life approached, Swinburne frequently expressed his intention to extract from his various volumes those poems which were addressed to children, or were descriptive of child-life, and to publish them in a separate collection. He died without having found occasion to carry out this plan, and he left no directions with regard to the way in which it ought to be done.. One reason why Swinburne never brought out such a collection was his failure to find an artist who could interpret to his satisfaction the simplicity and freshness of his verses. We are fortunate in having secured, in Mr. Arthur Rackham, one whose delicate and romantic fancy is in sensitive harmony with Swinburne's, and who understands, no less than he did, how "Heaven lies about us in our infancy." (Edmund Gosse), Latimore and Haskell, p. 48. Riall, p. 133. .

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Book number: 03589

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles Illustrated Books Poetry Illustrated Books Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry