Lot 206
[Rackham, Arthur] Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. Signed Deluxe Edition
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Rackham, Arthur] Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes
London: William Heinemann, (1913). First and limited deluxe edition, #772/1,100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1,130), signed by Rackham. 4to. xi, (i), 159, (1) pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 12 mounted color plates, each with captioned tissue guards, one mounted black and white plate with captioned tissue guard, and numerous black and white plates, by Rackham. Original full white cloth, stamped in gilt, spine slightly darkened; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; scattered light foxing and offsetting; text partially unopened; in quarter morocco slip case. Riall, pp. 115; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 40-41
A beautiful copy of the signed deluxe edition
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