Description

First Edition of the Rackham illustrated printing LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 numbered copies AND SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. With numerous illustrations, both full page and within the text and other decorations in black and white by Arthur Rackham, Rackham decorated titlepage printed in black and gold. 4to, publisher's original tan polished linen, gilt lettered on the spine and with a Rackham designed pictorial decoration in black and gilt on the upper cover, pictorial endpapers printed in gold, in the publisher's original pictorially decorated slipcase printed in red and gold on tan paper. [xxxv], 130 pp. A very fine copy, the book is near pristine, fresh and bright as can be. The original slipcase near fine with a little toning and faint spot, a little rubbing to the paper at the corners and edges but still strong, solid, and very attractive.