Buy this book on-line ARTHUR RACKHAM : The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse and illustrations by Arthur RackhamWilliam Heinemann, London and J.B.Lippincott, Philadelphia [1916]., 1916
The first trade edition, printed at The Complete Press in West Norwood and issued alongside a deluxe limited issue. 8vo. xxii, 122pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with black lettering and two gilt-stamped Rackham decorations to the upper board. With illustrated endpapers, a title page decoration, a colour frontispiece and eleven full-page colour plates each with a captioned protector (the protector for the final plate detached and laid-in), plus twenty-four black and white illustrations as head and tail pieces, or in the text. Some wear to the cloth at the backstrip ends and several corner tips. The hinges a little tender, the free endpapers browned and with a little edge-creasing and a single tiny tear to the frontispiece. Quite a nice crisp copy of this delightfully illustrated collection of thirteen fairy stories from assorted allied nations (including English, Welsh, Irish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Serbian and Belgian).. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ARTHUR RACKHAM : The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres d'occasion, libri antichi, antiquarian books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |