Rackham, Arthur
Mother Goose
£605
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1130 copies signed and numbered by the artist, 4to, original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations in text, a few text-leaves unopened, laid-in advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham's original watercolours for the work, spine toned, covers slightly marked, light spotting to endpapers, browning to half-title and final page of text