[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Arthur Rackham, 1929, in scarce original box. Price Reduced.

[Charles Agvent]

Price Reduced!

  (RACKHAM, Arthur) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. London: 
George G. Harrap & Co, 1929. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") bound 
in the original full gilt-decorated vellum. Illustrated with 12 color 
plates and 22 black and white drawings. Copy #330 of 575 of the English 
issue SIGNED by the illustrator Arthur Rackham. There were also 200 in 
the American issue. Small adhesive remnant of a bookplate on the verso 
of the front free endpaper. Some spotting to the spine, a little less so 
to the front cover. In the original box, not noted by Latimore and 
Haskell in their bibliography of Rackham and never seen by us before. It 
is green cardboard, the bottom with a smooth white surface and the top 
with a printed label containing the title of the book and the limitation 
number on one flap.  Fine copy in the scarce original box which is in 
Very Good condition, complete with tears at most corners and one tear on 
one bottom flap.    Was   $2000.00     Now   $1,500.00	

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