Friday, December 4, 2015

1900 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED ~ BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALES ~ RARE DRAGONS ELVES MAGIC FANTASY

CA. 1900

FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
TRANSLATED BY MRS. EDGAR LUCAS

ILLUSTRATED
BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ EARLY RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS ~ HANDSOME DECORATED BINDING ~ CLASSIC ~ FAIRIES, GOBLINS, ELVES, FOREST FANTASY ***

Publisher:
London: Constable and Company Ltd., no date, circa 1900.
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, Somerset.

• measures about 7.75'' x 6''
• handsome original publisher's decorative orange cloth binding
• ornate embossed gilt to spine and brown lettering to front
• glossy color frontispiece and title page
• illustrated with about 100 monochrome part-page and full-page pictures

Rare original 1900 Arthur Rackham-illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales, which prompted the issue of Rackham's 1909 deluxe signed edition with modified and colored illustrations based on these original drawings. A low number (around 150) of this particular edition were printed for Freemantle in 1900 before production ceased and changed hands to Constable (this edition), which was printed in a similarly small quantity. This book appears to be the First Constable edition, though it bears no edition or printing statement.

1905 GAMMER GRETHEL FAIRY TALES ~ RARE BLANCHE MCMANUS SIGNED-BINDING ~ ELVES DRAGONS FAIRIES MAGIC BOOK

CA. 1905

GAMMER GRETHEL'S FAIRY TALES
ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK AND OTHERS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LAWRENCE HOUSMAN

RARE BINDING DESIGNED BY BLANCHE MCMANUS

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ MANY ILLUSTRATIONS ~ HANDSOME PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC FAIRY TALES ~ SNOW WHITE ~ RUMPELSTILTSKIN ~ FAIRIES ~ ELVES ~ GOBLINS ~ FANTASY ~ MAGIC ***

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd., no date, circa 1905.
• measures about 7.75'' x 5.5''
• handsome original publisher's decorative cloth fine binding - design by Blanche McManus - marked with her 'BMcM' cipher lower left
• embossed gold gilt lettering to spine - pictorial stamping in black, white, and green
• textblock top edge gilt
• glossy color frontispiece by D. S. Hallett
• illustrated with many part-page monochrome pictures