NIELSEN, Kay; Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor

Bookman [Special] Christmas Number 1925, the

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. The Bookman Special Christmas Number 1925," with "The Bookman Portfolio" Containing Three Color Plates by Kay Nielsen [NIELSEN, Kay, contributor]. The Bookman. [Special] Christmas Number 1925. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. First edition. Large quarto (13 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 335 x 222 mm.). xxiv, [12, publisher's advertisements on yellow paper], [2, publisher's advertisements on blue paper], [3], 144-196, [2, publisher's advertisement], 208 ("Supplement to The Bookman Christmas 1925"), xxv-xxxiv [publisher's advertisements] pp. Six mounted color plates (including frontispiece) by Charles Robinson, Lionel Edwards, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Kitty Shannon, and Winifred Brunton, numerous additional color and black and white plates by E.H. Shepard, Willebeek Le Mair, Mead Schaeffer, E.O. Hoppé, Donald Maxwell, and others. Text illustrations. Original cream-colored wrappers printed in green with mounted color plate on front wrapper. A near fine copy. Loosely laid in is "The Bookman Portfolio containing plates in colour by Kay Nielsen illustrating Hansel and Gretel and other stories by the brothers Grimm" with three color plates ("Catskin," "Rosebud," and "Rumpelstiltskin") mounted on heavy black stock with captions printed in gold. The Bookman (1891-1934) "was founded by William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923), editor of the British Weekly..It was conceived to popularize literature by offering a monthly read at 6d. a time to people with limited finance. As a journal for ‘Book buyers, Book readers, and Book sellers', the Bookman combined reviews with short items of news about book people and essays on general literary subjects, as well as many illustrations. There were also special issues on particular authors. It was highly successful in commercial terms, and a useful source of income to writers as diverse as W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), A.E.W. Mason, Walter Pater (1839-94), J.M. Barrie, Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and Arthur Ransome (1884-1967). If, between the wars, the Bookman was eventually unable to compete for readers with newspapers and radio, it had successfully established a definition of literary interest as that which combines an equal concern for past and present authors, for ‘high' and ‘low' fiction, and for a literary knowledge that included news about publishers and booksellers as well as about authors" (The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction). .

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Book number: 00151

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Fortescue-Brickdale, Eleanor Art Christmas Illustrated Books Illustrated Books Christmas Literature

PALGRAVE, Francis T.; ZAEHNSDORF, binders

Golden Treasury, the

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902. Not Just a Book - But a Monument" Palgrave's Golden Treasury - First & Second Series Superbly Bound by Zaehnsdorf PALGRAVE, Francis T. ZAEHNSDORF, binder. The Golden Treasury. Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes.. revised and enlarged. [First and Second Series]. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902 & 1900 Golden Treasury Series. Two small octavo volumes (6 x 3 7/8 inches; 152 x 98 mm.). [xii], 381, [1, imprint]; xii, 275, [1. blank] pp. title-page to first series with engraved vignette, title-page to second series with tinted engraved vignette. Small neat tape repair to front blank leaf in volume one. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1902 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins). Full brown levant morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind with gilt floral corner-pieces, enclosing a panel of eleven gilt flowers and stems with gilt pointillé and decorative blind stamping. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled an gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, double gilt-ruled board edges, gilt ruled and decorated turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. A beautiful set with the rather uncommon Second Series which was first published in 1897. This is "not just a book but a monument. The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, edited by Francis Turner Palgrave, first appeared in 1861, and it quickly came to define Victorian taste in poetry. Palgrave sifted 300 years of English verse, from the Elizabethans to the Romantics, for poems that embodied his timeless ideal of lyric poetry: 'neither modern nor ancient, but true in all ages, and like the works of Creation, perfect as on the first day.' "Palgrave's Golden Treasury, as it came to be known, was as influential as any anthology ever published. It not only decided which poems the literate Briton should know; it embodied a whole conception of poetry that is still a large part of what we mean by 'poetic.' Palgrave poetry is sincere, direct, and beautiful; it approximates song rather than speech; it deals with the most sweeping subjects—in particular, love, death, and nature—rather than the merely personal and local. Palgrave poetry is almost never urban, ironic, obscure, or verbally ambiguous" (Adam Kirsh, Palgrave's Revenge. Slate, Nov. 2, 2002). .

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Book number: 04423

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: ZAEHNSDORF, binders Fine Bindings Literature Poetry Gift Books

PATTINSON, Alice, binder; FYLEMAN, Rose

Fairies and Chimneys

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1919. There are Fairies at the bottom of our garden! It's not so very, very far away; You pass the gardener's shed and you just keep straight ahead -- I do so hope they've really come to stay" PATTINSON, Alice binder. FYLEMAN, Rose. Fairies and Chimneys. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1919. Fourth edition (first published in May, 1918). Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four groups of twelve leaves inlaid in green morocco with a central inlaid red morocco flower. Front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spines in with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt dots, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pinkish cream liners and end-leaves, all edges gilt. Fine. A very nice example of Alice Pattinson's fine work, one of Douglas Cockerell's students. A lovely little book containing twenty-five sweet little poems about fairies.. Alice Pattinson was one of a small group of distinguished female binders at work in England at the turn of the century. Among other distinctions, she was chosen (along with Katharine Adams and Florence Paget) as one of the three women employed to bind the forty copies of the Ashendene "Song of Songs" (1902), the illuminated book printed on vellum that stands as one of the greatest achievements of the modern private press movement. "Alice Pattinson (Mrs. Raymund Allen) was also one of Cockerell's pupils, and she set up her bindery in his rooms at 29 Gilbert Street when he moved out to Ewell in 1902. She received a good deal of praise for her bindings, which were illustrated in Art Workers Quarterly, Art Journal, and The Art of the Book (1914). Her work was indeed to a very high standard, but, like Sarah Prideaux, she had professional help. She must have bound a few books under Cockerell, but virtually all her later bindings were forwarded by her partner Else Hoffman, and finished by George Fisher, who at the time was one of the finest finishers in England. Fisher attended Douglas Cockerell's evening classes at the Central School, and Cockerell introduced him to Pattinson just after he had finished his apprenticeship with Rivière's. Pattinson made no secret of employing Fisher, although frequently her bindings were illustrated in catalogues and journals with no mention at all of who did the different parts of the work. Her bindings are signed with the monogram of her initials, similar to that of Annie Power, and are usually dated. Else Hoffman also did some binding on her own account, in a style similar to Pattinson's. She often showed her work at A&CES exhibitions, and also exhibited at Frankfurt in 1906, and at Leipzig in 1914. She lived at ‘Oak House' (later ‘The Cottage'), The Mount, Sydenham." (Marianne Tidcombe. Women Bookbinder 1880-1920, p. 170). Rose Amy Fyleman (1877-1957) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann. Her Christmas carol Lift Your Hidden Faces, set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise (1931) as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light (1977). Born in Nottingham, she was the third child of John Feilmann and his wife, Emilie, nee Loewenstein, who were of Russian extraction. Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were Jews who had come from Jever in Oldenburg in Germany in 1860. Her works include: Fairies and Chimneys (1918), The Sunny Book (1918), The Fairy Queen (1919), The Fairy Flute (1921), The Rainbow Cat and Other Stories (1922), The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book (1923), Eight Little Plays for Children (1924), The Adventure Club (1925) and Forty Good Morning Tales (1926). .

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Book number: 04439

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: FYLEMAN, Rose Fine Bindings Fairies Poetry

PATTINSON, Alice, binder; PATER, Walter

Marius the Epicurean

London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. An Early Example of Alice Pattinson's Fine Binding One of Douglas Cockerell's Students PATTINSON, Alice, binder. PATER, Walter. Marius the Epicurean. His Sensations and Ideas.. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 200 x 124 mm.). [1-11], 12-239, [1, blank]; [1-9], 10-218, pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson in 1904 stamp-signed in gilt "19 AP 04" on rear turn-ins. Crushed navy blue morocco, covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a symmetrical chevron-like design enclosed within an inlaid green morocco border at the edges of the covers richly decorated with gilt leaves, dots, and corner flowers. Spines with five raised bands, similarly decorated in gilt with olive morocco inlaid borders elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges and wide turn-ins triple-ruled in gilt, dark green paste-downs and endleaves, top edges gilt, others uncut. The bindings are in fine condition with absolutely no signs of wear. An early example of Alice Pattinson's fine work, one of Douglas Cockerell's students. Alice Pattinson was one of a small group of distinguished female binders at work in England at the turn of the century. Among other distinctions, she was chosen (along with Katharine Adams and Florence Paget) as one of the three women employed to bind the forty copies of the Ashendene "Song of Songs" (1902), the illuminated book printed on vellum that stands as one of the greatest achievements of the modern private press movement. "Alice Pattinson (Mrs. Raymund Allen) was also one of Cockerell's pupils, and she set up her bindery in his rooms at 29 Gilbert Street when he moved out to Ewell in 1902. She received a good deal of praise for her bindings, which were illustrated in Art Workers Quarterly, Art Journal, and The Art of the Book (1914). Her work was indeed to a very high standard, but, like Sarah Prideaux, she had professional help. She must have bound a few books under Cockerell, but virtually all her later bindings were forwarded by her partner Else Hoffman, and finished by George Fisher, who at the time was one of the finest finishers in England. Fisher attended Douglas Cockerell's evening classes at the Central School, and Cockerell introduced him to Pattinson just after he had finished his apprenticeship with Rivière's. Pattinson made no secret of employing Fisher, although frequently her bindings were illustrated in catalogues and journals with no mention at all of who did the different parts of the work. Her bindings are signed with the monogram of her initials, similar to that of Annie Power, and are usually dated. Else Hoffman also did some binding on her own account, in a style similar to Pattinson's. She often showed her work at A&CES exhibitions, and also exhibited at Frankfurt in 1906, and at Leipzig in 1914. She lived at ‘Oak House' (later ‘The Cottage'), The Mount, Sydenham." (Marianne Tidcombe. Women Bookbinder 1880-1920, p. 170). Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), written between 1881 and 1884, published in 1885 and set in 161-177 AD, in the Rome of the Antonines. It explores the intellectual development of its protagonist, a young Roman of integrity, in his pursuit of a congenial religion or philosophy at a time of change and uncertainty that Pater likened to his own era. The narration is third-person, slanted from Marius's point of view, added to which are various interpolated discourses, ranging from adaptations of classical and early Christian writings to Marius's diary and authorial comment. Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity. .

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Book number: 04428

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: PATER, Walter Fine Bindings Classical History Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

POTTER, Beatrix; SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders

Pie and the Patty-Pan, the

London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First Edition of "The Pie and the Patty-Pan," in a Superb 'Double' Pictorial Inlaid Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe POTTER, Beatrix. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1905. First edition, later printing (with "1905" on the verso of the title-page). Small quarto (6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 174 x 133 mm.). 51, [1] pp. Color frontispiece and nine color plates (included in pagination). Twenty-one vignettes in black and white. "The year 1905 appears on the front of the title-page of the first printing. The early printings have plain mottled lavender end-papers, which were shortly replaced by an end-paper design featuring a pie and a patty-pan. The cover picture was then changed from a cat in a small circle, to one of Ribby sitting by the fire, in a large circle" (Linder). Sumptuously bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1980 (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in). Full dark brown crushed levant morocco. The front cover with a fine oval multi colored morocco image taken from the black and white illustration on page 11 of Duchess "And my pie was going to be veal and ham." The cover also decorated in gilt with tiny circles and a vertical stalk with leaves. The rear cover a fine oval multi colored morocco image taken from the color plate of 'Ribby' on page 50 "So there really was a patty-pan" similarly decorated in gilt as on the front cover. Smooth spine lettered in gilt with a small orange and green floral inlay at top. Gold and brown decorated end-papers, original front end-papers with a 'pie and patty-pan' design in pink and original brown front cover bound in at end with an onlaid picture of a cat in a small circle. Housed in a dark brown morocco edged, brown cloth slipcase with fleece-lining. This is one of the prettiest little pictorial inlaid bindings that we have seen. Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one of the leading bookbinders in London, was established in 1901 by Francis Sangorski (1875-1912) and George Sutcliffe (1878-1943). It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious bindings. Linder, p. 425. Quinby 9. V & A 1542. .

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Book number: 05217

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders Children's Books Illustrated Books Children's Books Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Cats

POTTER, Beatrix; Glass, Dudley

Songs of Peter Rabbit, the

London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1951. The Songs of Peter Rabbit" [POTTER, Beatrix]. GLASS, Dudley. The Songs of Peter Rabbit. Based on "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter. Words and Music by Dudley Glass. London: Frederick Warne & Co. [1951]. First edition. Large quarto (11 15/16 x 9 9/16 inches ; 303 x 243 mm.). 31, [1] pp. With lithographed reproductions of thirty of the original illustrations printed in blue. Original color pictorial boards with pale green linen backstrip. A tiny bit of rubbing to the corners. Otherwise a near fine copy. The Story of Peter Rabbit was originally conceived by Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) whilst on holiday with her family at Eastwood, Dunkeld, Scotland. Through the 1890s, Beatrix Potter sent illustrated story letters to the children of her former governess, Annie Moore. On September 4th, 1893 she wrote a 'picture letter' and sent it to Moore's eldest son Noël. This five year old boy was the recipient of what has become one of the most famous letters ever written. "Sep[tember] 4th, [18]93. My dear Noel, I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy Cottontail, and Peter.."" (Judy Taylor. Beatrix Potter's Letters, pp. 19-27). Dudley Jack Glass (1899-1981) was an Australian-born composer, pianist and writer. He is best known for composing musicals and light operas, including The Songs of Peter Rabbit, The Beloved Vagabond and The Toymaker of Nuremberg. Quinby, p. 116, C8. .

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Book number: 00163

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Glass, Dudley Children's Books Illustrated Books English Literature Music Children's Books Illustrated Books Literature Music

POTTER, Beatrix

Tailor of Gloucester, the

London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First Published Edition In the Rare Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First published edition, first issue (printed October 1903), with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 85, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Seventeen illustrations are entirely new for this edition; eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the December 1902 privately printed edition. Original maroon boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white on spine. Color pictorial label on front cover within a blind panel in the shape of a truncated pyramid outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate I, a single-page endpaper occurring four times). Minimal fading to spine. Small circular bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Otherwise a spectacular copy in very fine condition. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case with felt lining. In the rare correct glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price "1/- NET" at foot of spine, an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the back panel listing The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and The Tailor of Gloucester, and with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel. The jacket has a few very small chips along the top edge (the largest being a 3/8 inch piece missing at the top of the spine), but is certainly the finest jacket for this title that we have ever seen. "The year 1903 appears on the front of the title-page of the first two printings. The first printing [October 1903] has a single-page end-paper occurring four times, and the second printing [December 1903], a double-page end-paper occurring twice. In the art fabric de-luxe edition, some copies have the usual frontispiece, others have the cover picture in its place. Both pictures were printed on one sheet, which was cut in half, and each half used as a tipped-in frontispiece. With this binding there was no cover picture" (Linder, p. 423). Linder, p. 423. Quinby 4. V & A 1576. .

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Book number: 00665

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Children's Books Illustrated Books Children's Books Illustrated Books Literature

POTTER, Beatrix

Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, the

London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1911. First Edition of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes in the Original Printed Glassine Dust Jacket POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1911. First edition. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Cover pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). A near mint copy. In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price "1/- NET" at foot of spine, with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel, with an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the rear panel listing The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes under "New Book for 1911," an advertisement on the front flap: "Children Will Revel In The Story of The Roly=Poly Pudding..The Pie & The Patty=Pan..Ginger and Pickles," and an advertisement on the rear flap: "A Novel and Charming Pocket Series by Beatrix Potter..The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit..The Story of Miss Moppet." A remarkable and complete jacket, with only a tiny bit of chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and a closed tear at the bottom of the spine. Housed in a quarter dark blue morocco clamshell case with felt lining. Linder, p. 429. Quinby 20. V & A 1664. .

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Book number: 00687

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Children's Books Illustrated Books Children's Books Illustrated Books Literature

PYNE, William Henry

Social Club, the

London: S. and J. Fuller, 1822. William Pyne's The Social Club The Pyne Family Copy in the Original Parts Most Likely the Finest Copy Extant PYNE, William Henry. The Social Club: Consisting of a Series of Stories; and Accompanied by Humourous Prints of each Subject, Engraved and Coloured in Imitation of the Original Drawings, Made Expressly for the Work. The Drawings by W.H. Pyne, Esq. [Parts 1 - 4, all published]. London: S. and J. Fuller, 1822. First edition. Title from front wrapper. Parts I-IV only (all published). Large quarto (14 x 11 5/8 inches; 355 x 295 mm.). 26 pp. Twelve fine hand-colored aquatint plates by Smart & Hunt after W.H. Pyne. Text watermarked 1821. At head of title: "To be completed in twelve monthly numbers, forming one handsome volume." Uncut in the original tan printed wrappers. Stabbed and sewn. With four copies of the original prospectus bound in (each one octavo page). Spines expertly repaired, front wrapper of Part I and rear wrapper of Part IV neatly repaired, the inside wrapper of part one with just a few letters touched and on part IV with no text loss. A spectacular example of this extremely rare item - most likely the finest copy extant. Housed in a red cloth portfolio. From the Pyne Family collection, with the armorial bookplate of H.B. Pyne on front pastedown of portfolio, and with an Autograph Note Signed by H.B. Pyne, dated 1941, laid in: "The Social Club. Some of the Original water colours of these are framed and hung in the landing upstairs. These I think ought to be kept in the Family (Pyne)." Scarce, with only one copy at auction within the last eighty-six years .. (Bloomsbury, 2013 - bound). OCLC & KVK locate just one example in libraries and universities worldwide: The British Library (UK). Twelve satiric stories, each with an accompanying aquatint engraving: 1. A Thief in the Kirk 2. Cheap Meat 3. The Horse Without A Head 4. What Do You Think I Shave For A Drink 5. Obadiah and the Ambassador 6. Martin O'Rourke, The Wonderful Swimmer 7. Charity Kettering and the Frozen Dish-Clout 8. The Rape of the Roasted Goose 9. The Barber of Gosport Who Shaved Gratis 10. The Two Sailors at the Haunted Inn 11. Old Copper the Waterman and the Duke of Grafton 12. Whistling Dalmahoy and the Shads William Henry Pyne (1769-1843) is primarily known for his work for R. Ackermann especially An "etcher and painter as well as a writer, though perhaps best known through the delightful gossip about art and artists, published under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle.. He had an instinct for the different types of the working classes.. Pyne received in the course of his long life abundant recognition, both at home and from foreign academies, but as an old man he lived in obscurity and neglect, and died after a long illness in 1843" (Prideaux). Prideaux, p. 348, Not in Tooley or Abbey. .

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Book number: 05503

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Color-Plate Books Books in Parts Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature

RACKHAM, Arthur; DICKENS, Charles

A Christmas Carol

London: William Heinemann, 1915. Edition de Luxe, Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1915]. Limited to 525 numbered copies, of which 500 are for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies (this copy being No. 444), signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 291 x 230 mm.). xv, [1, blank], 147, [1] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards printed in red, and twenty drawings in black and white. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Later yellow silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. Later silk ties. The inner hinges have been expertly strengthened and there is a small (one inch) neat repair to the top of the front free end-paper. For some unexplained reason there is an additional front free endpaper. Very feint tape marks on endpapers from a removed protective jacket. With the rectangular pictorial bookplate of Betty Kampmann on front paste-down. Apart from the aforementioned this is a very fine and bright copy, one of the best that we have ever seen, the vellum is very fine and the gilt stamping on the front cover and spine much brighter than is usually seen. Housed in a felt-lined, white buckram over marbled boards clamshell case, spine with black leather label lettered in gilt. "He [Rackham] is not usually remembered as an illustrator of Dickens, but A Christmas Carol (1915) was decidedly successful, for he contrived to adapt the tradition of 'Phiz' and Cruikshank to his own characteristic style in the pictures of Victorian London and at the same time found scope for his fantasy in the ghost scenes. We also find him here developing his special talent for silhouette, rare among illustrators.." (Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham, p. 106). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 44-45. Riall, pp. 124-125. .

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Book number: 05831

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: DICKENS, Charles Illustrated Books Signed Limited Edition English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Christmas Illustrated Books Books into Film Christmas Nineteenth-Century Literature

RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator; BARRIE, J.M.

A Chrysanthemum Heard Her, and Said Pointedly, 'Hoity-Tioty, What Is This?'

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. The Largest Rackham Plates Ever Printed [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. "A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-tioty, what is this?'" A single plate from The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d. 1912]. Handsomely framed and glazed in the original mount. Image size 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 241 x 181 mm. Frame size 21 x 17 1/4 inches; 535 x 438 mm. The Peter Pan Portfolio was limited to 600 copies published in 1912, and contained 12 of Rackham's favorite drawings from his 1906 edition of Peter pan in Kensington Gardens, which had 50 color plates. The Portfolio plates are approximately 60% larger than their 1906 counterparts. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113. .

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Book number: 05057

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: BARRIE, J.M. Children's Books Illustrated Books Fairies

RACKHAM, Arthur; Walton, Izaak

Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, the

London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1931. I Envy No Body But Him, And Him Only, That Catches More Fish Than I Do" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. [1931]. Limited to 775 numbered copies (this copy being No. 408), signed by the artist. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 13/16 inches; 263 x 198 mm.). 223, [1] pp. Twelve color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Title printed in green and black. Original full vellum over boards. Front cover lettered in gilt within a gilt triple-rule border, spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with three gilt rules at top and bottom of spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in reddish brown and white. Small light stain at top of spine, light tape marks on free end-papers, otherwise a very good copy. "No fewer than six plates have landscape backgrounds, plates which should remind us of Rackham's very serious reputation as a landscape painter, with a fine vision of natural forms" (Gettings, Arthur Rackham, p. 159). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 66-67. Riall, p. 175. .

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Book number: 03896

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Walton, Izaak Illustrated Books Children's Books Signed Limited Edition Angling Children's Books Illustrated Books Angling Seventeenth-Century Literature

RACKHAM, Arthur; MILTON, John

Comus

London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Trade Edition of Rackham's Comus In the Original Color Pictorial Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. London: William Heinemann, [1921]. First trade edition. Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 183 mm.). xviii, 76, [2] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Two color plates (nos. XIV & XVI) with very light corner creases. Publishers green cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, blue and white pictorial endpapers. Some sporadic light foxing but still a very good copy in the scarce original color pictorial dust jacket. lightly chipped at spine ends and extremities. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143. .

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Book number: 03533

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: MILTON, John Illustrated Books Children's Books Signed Limited Edition Children's Books Illustrated Books

RACKHAM, Arthur; MILTON, John

Comus

London: William heinemann, 1921. With Twenty-Four Mounted Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MILTON, John. Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heineman[n.d. 1921]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 550 copies (this copy being no. 215). Large quarto (11 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 297 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream-colored parchment boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in blue and white. Spine darkened, slight 'toning' to parchment boards, corners bumped, board edges rubbed. A fair copy - internally clean. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. "Another, more important, publication of Rackham's in 1921 was a long-delayed edition of Milton's Comus, the drawings for which, begun before the war, deserve to rank with his best work of that earlier period.." (Hudson, p.119). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 54-55. Riall, p. 143. .

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Book number: 03922

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: MILTON, John Illustrated Books Children's Books Signed Limited Edition Children's Books Illustrated Books Signed Limited Edition

RACKHAM, Arthur; BURNEY, Frances

Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World

London: Geo. Newnes Ltd. 1898. Fanny Burney's Evelina With Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations by Arthur Rackham A Unique Copy Signed by Rackham on the Half-Title RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. BURNEY, Frances. Evelina or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. London:Geo. Newnes Ltd. 1898. First Rackham illustrated edition, later issue. Signed in black ink by Arthur Rackham on lower corner of half-title. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm.). xv, [i, blank], 416, [2], [1, The New Library - advertisement], [1, blank], pp. Thirty-two page George Newnes Limited catalog at end, the first page dated "11-99" (November 1899). Sixteen full-page black & white line-drawings by Rackham included in the pagination. Publisher's gray-blue cloth front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in brown, spine decorated in brown and lettered in gilt, original black coated end-papers, top edge gilt. Minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, inner front hinge very slightly cracked but still sound. An excellent copy - the first that we have seen with Arthur Rackham's signature. According to the bibliographers Sarah Briggs Latimore, Grace Clark Haskell and Richard Riall, the first issue should only have one page of advertisements at the back of the book. It is apparent that the publisher had many unsold copies and that the thirty-two page catalog was simply inserted at the end of the book in 1899. Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. In this epistolary novel, the title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of eighteenth century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician and music historian Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814) and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of her mother's six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her "scribblings" at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels during which she was stranded in France by warfare for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840. Riall, p.25; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 10/11. .

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Book number: 04410

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: BURNEY, Frances Children's Books Illustrated Books Eighteenth-Century Literature Literature