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1913 Signed Limited Edition "Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures"

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures (intro. by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Genre Anthology, Children’s
Illustrator Arthur Rackham
Type of Illustration Forty-four offset lithographs
Binding Buckram, Slipcase
Publisher or Printer William Heinemann
Publication Year 1913
Place of Publication London
Language English
Signed Yes
Signed by This volume is signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham to the limitation page.
Volumes This edition was limited to 1030 copies; 1000 were sold in Great Britain of which this is number 43.
Number of Books 1
Additional Information This signed, limited edition features top text edges in gilt, untrimmed fore and bottom text edges and forty-four full color plates tipped-in on heavy brown paper protected by titled tissue-guards.

Condition

- shaken but tight binding; loose hinges; wear to the cover with sunning, bumped corners, rubbed edges, and soiling; fading to the endpapers; toning to the tissue-guards and text edges; foxing; soiling to slipcase.

Dimensions

1.5" W x 12.0" H x 9.5" D

Item #

ITMG266593

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