Author: RACKHAM, Arthur
Title: Mother Goose
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1913. Arthur Rackham's favorite Nursery Rhymes from his own Nursery Days RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1913]. First trade edition, first issue? with pictorial endpapers BUT no date on verso of title-page. Octavo (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 inches; 202 x 149 mm). xi, [1, blank], 159, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates, one monotone plate, eighty-five black and white illustrations, many in silhouette. Title page with blue lettering and black illustration. pp. 131-134 & 141/142 with very light, almost invisible creases, otherwise fresh and clean. Publisher's original gray cloth, with a 'sampler' pictorially stamped in red, blue, and green with blue lettering, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in red, blue and green, top edge blue. A bright, near fine copy. "So far as titles go (but not so far as artwork goes) we move into a different key with Mother Goose, a book constructed in 1913 from a series of plates and line drawings which had appeared and would reappear in St Nicholas between 1912 and 1914. The poems were chosen by Rackham, presumably in terms of the themes and subjects he wished to illustrate: this would account for the consistently good quality of the many plates and of the numerous line drawings.." (Fred Gettings. Arthur Rackham, p. 131). Latimore and Haskell, p. 41. Riall, p. 115. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books Fairy Tales
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Title: Mother Goose
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1913. Arthur Rackham's favorite Nursery Rhymes from his own Nursery Days RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1913]. First trade edition, first issue? with pictorial endpapers BUT no date on verso of title-page. Octavo (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 inches; 202 x 149 mm). xi, [1, blank], 159, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates, one monotone plate, eighty-five black and white illustrations, many in silhouette. Title page with blue lettering and black illustration. pp. 131-134 & 141/142 with very light, almost invisible creases, otherwise fresh and clean. Publisher's original gray cloth, with a 'sampler' pictorially stamped in red, blue, and green with blue lettering, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in red, blue and green, top edge blue. A bright, near fine copy. "So far as titles go (but not so far as artwork goes) we move into a different key with Mother Goose, a book constructed in 1913 from a series of plates and line drawings which had appeared and would reappear in St Nicholas between 1912 and 1914. The poems were chosen by Rackham, presumably in terms of the themes and subjects he wished to illustrate: this would account for the consistently good quality of the many plates and of the numerous line drawings.." (Fred Gettings. Arthur Rackham, p. 131). Latimore and Haskell, p. 41. Riall, p. 115. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books Fairy Tales
Price: US$ 450.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05331
- Book number: 05331
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