RACKHAM, Arthur. [The Ring of the Niblung]. FIRST TRADE EDITIONS.
Sale 2037 - Summer Reading
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Jun 25, 2024
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Jul 16, 2024
Timed Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
[RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator]. WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883). [The Ring of the Niblung]. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. -- Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. Margaret Armour, translator. London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday Page & Co., 1910, 1911.
2 volumes, small 4to. Each with tipped-in color plates, printed tissue guards, numerous illustrations. (Light spotting to half-titles.) Original brown buckram gilt (spines gently sunned, one spine slanted).
Provenance: E.M. Prescott (contemporary ownership inscription dated 1911); Ruth Peck (ownership signature); Kitty (ownership name neatly placed inside illustration on half-titles).
FIRST TRADE EDITION. These English translations of Wagner's first two operas in The Ring of the Niblung series contain some of Rackham's only illustrations for an adult audience. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 37-38; Riall, pp.103, 109.
This lot is located in Chicago.
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