RACKHAM, Arthur (1869-1953, illustrator) – EVANS, C.S., editor. Cinderella. London: Heinemann [1919]. [With:] – The Sleeping Beauty. London: Heinemann [1920].
Two classic fairy tales, each with an original pen and ink sketch by Arthur Rackham. Cinderella bears a large original drawing on the half-title depicting the fairy godmother about to transform a lizard into a footman, signed and dated by Arthur Rackham just a few days before Christmas, 1919. Cinderella is from the limited edition, one of 850 copies signed and with an extra color plate, the issue on English hand-made paper. Sleeping Beauty is a first Rackham trade edition and includes a pasted-in drawing of Merlin reading a book, signed by Rackham and dated Christmas 1920. In Evans's version of this tale, it is Merlin who suggests destroying all the spindles in the kingdom. Latimore/Haskell pp. 49-52.
Together, two volumes, quarto and small quarto. Color plate frontispiece in Cinderella, silhouette illustrations after Rackham in both (some pale browning and offsetting). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (some fading, light wear to edges). Provenance: "Mary" (contemporary gift inscriptions) – Brian Douglas Stilwell (bookplates).
RACKHAM, Arthur (1869-1953, illustrator) – EVANS, C.S., editor. Cinderella. London: Heinemann [1919]. [With:] – The Sleeping Beauty. London: Heinemann [1920].
Two classic fairy tales, each with an original pen and ink sketch by Arthur Rackham. Cinderella bears a large original drawing on the half-title depicting the fairy godmother about to transform a lizard into a footman, signed and dated by Arthur Rackham just a few days before Christmas, 1919. Cinderella is from the limited edition, one of 850 copies signed and with an extra color plate, the issue on English hand-made paper. Sleeping Beauty is a first Rackham trade edition and includes a pasted-in drawing of Merlin reading a book, signed by Rackham and dated Christmas 1920. In Evans's version of this tale, it is Merlin who suggests destroying all the spindles in the kingdom. Latimore/Haskell pp. 49-52.
Together, two volumes, quarto and small quarto. Color plate frontispiece in Cinderella, silhouette illustrations after Rackham in both (some pale browning and offsetting). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (some fading, light wear to edges). Provenance: "Mary" (contemporary gift inscriptions) – Brian Douglas Stilwell (bookplates).
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