[Rarebooks] FS: Rackham's SLEEPING BEAUTY, limited & signed
Bob Petrilla
petrillabooks at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 08:57:07 EST 2016
[Perrault, Charles]. SLEEPING BEAUTY: Told by C.S. Evans and Illustrated by
Arthur Rackham. London / Philadelphia: Heinemann / Lippincott, (1920).
First edition thus. 110pp; one tipped-on color plate, three double-page and
two single-page silhouettes in color; 14 b&w silhouettes (6 double-page, 8
single-page), and 41 drawings in the text. [The color plate did not appear
in the trade edition.] Bound in vellum-backed ivory boards, gilt lettering
and small cover illustration, top edges gilt. Binding slightly discolored
as usual; tape shadows on endpapers (probably from an old, temporary paper
jacket). 11.5" x 9" Very Good.
This is #404 of 625 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. $750.00
Trade discount 20%, postpaid in US
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