Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £400 |
RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) - Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804-64). A Wonder Book. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1922]. 4to (285 x 225mm). Mounted coloured frontispiece, illustration on the title page, and 23 plates, of which 15 mounted and coloured, by Arthur Rackham, illustrations. Original cream pictorial buckram gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut (some extremely faint staining, inner hinges a little weak). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. NUMBER 538 OF 600 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Gettings p.179; Hudson p.171; Latimore and Haskell p.55; Riall p.146. With Derek Hudson's Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work (London, 1960, original cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2)