Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £250 |
RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator). Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917. 4to (295 x 230mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, pictorial title, and 12 plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations (some mainly marginal spotting and staining, but plates clean). Original tan buckram boards with inset cream illustrated panel in gilt mounted on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (upper joints split, extremities rubbed, bumped, some light staining). FIRST "DE-LUXE" EDITION. NUMBER 92 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Without the additional signed duplicate plate found in some copies, but not mentioned in the limitation leaf or elsewhere. Gettings pp.116-7: "This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest"; Hudson p.169; Latimore & Haskell pp.46-7; Riall p.129.