Lot 298
Rackham, Arthur
Collection of works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 765 copies signed by the artist, 4to, recent cream quarter vellum in imitation of the original binding, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 9 tipped-in colour plates, toning to text-leaves, a few spots, limitation leaf (with half-title recto) slightly browned and with show-through from signature, faint tide-mark to top edge of a few leaves;
The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. [Volume 1:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. [Volume 2:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. London: William Heinemann, 1910-11. 2 volumes, first trade issues, (Rhinegold and Valkyrie a second impression), 4to, original tan pictorial, cloth gilt, 34 and 30 colour plates, Rhinegold with spotting to outer leaves, Siegfried cloth sunned, gift inscription to initial blank;
The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C. S. Evans. London: William Heinemann, c.1920. 4to, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine sunned, repriced), tipped in colour plate;
Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First trade edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, 16 colour plates;
English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First trade edition, 4to, original red cloth, 16 colour plates, spine faded and rolled, front inner hinge cracked;
The Ingoldsby Legends. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to original blue cloth gilt, 24 colour plates;
Grimm's Fairy Tales. London: William Heinemann Ltd, c.1909. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 40 colour plates, variable spotting to text;
and 12 other books illustrated by Rackham, including The Wind in the Willows, Gulliver's Travels, Tales from Shakespeare, English Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, together with 3 mounted Rackham prints and 2 Rackham calendars (one with slip for January torn away)