![]() ![]() Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) taught himself to paint as a child, before enrolling for evening classes at the Lambeth School of Art as a teenager. Dealer Notesįirst edition, third trade issue. The books, which have not been offered on the market for the best part of a century, contain some of Rackham’s best-known series of illustrations. See also our other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham on our website! These books are being sold on behalf of a client who inherited them from his grandfather, the original owner of the collection. (Spine slightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, boards slightly bowed, upper hinge cracking). ![]() (A few light spots and marks.) Original russet-brown cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt and with design after Rackham, spine lettered in gilt, dark-brown endpapers, front free endpaper with ‘Map of Peter Pan’s Kensington Gardens’ after Rackham, all edges brown. Wood-engraved vignette and further decoration on title, and 2 wood-engraved illustrations and one letterpress diagram in the text, all after Rackham. Colour-printed frontispiece and 49 colour-printed plates after Rackham, all mounted on dark-brown paper and with tissue guards bearing printed captions. ![]() AN ‘ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE’ WHICH BECAME ‘THE OUTSTANDING CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOK OF 1906 – AND MAINTAINED ITS HOLD FOR MANY LATER CHRISTMASES’ ![]()
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