[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Group of 8 Titles Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1907-33

Rackham, Arthur
The Land of Enchantment
London, etc.: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1907. First edition. 4to. (viii), 144 pp. Illustrated with tinted color frontispiece, 12 tinted color illustrations, and numerous tinted in-text illustrations. Publisher's light brown cloth, decorated in gilt, rebacked, lightly soiled, bowed; all edges trimmed; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 29-30; Riall, p. 84

These stories and illustrations appeared first in Little Folks between 1896 and 1902 (Riall, p. 84).

Spielmann, M.H.
The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy
London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. First edition. 8vo. xvi. 290 pp. Profusely illustrated by several artists, including 16 by Rackham (color frontispiece, 12 for Adventures in Wizard-Land and 3 for Father Christmas at Home). Publisher's coral cloth, decorated in giltspine faded, boards spotted; top edge gilt, fore-edge trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed; illustrated endpapers, foxed; previous owner's inscription on front endpapers. Latimore & Haskell, p. 35; Riall, p. 95

Drury, W.P.
The Peradventures of Private Pagett
London: Chapman and Hall, Ld., 1911. Later edition ("New and Cheaper Edition"). 8vo. (xii), (243), (1) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 7 illustrations, all black and white. Light brown cloth, stamped in black, illustrated label to front board, split along left edge of spine; all edges trimmed; scattered foxing; previous bookseller's description laid in. Latimore & Haskell, p. 23; Riall, p. 61

First published in 1904.

Martineau, Harriet
Feats on the Fiord
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited/New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (ca. 1914). Edition unclear (doesn't fully correspond to any examples in the bibliographies). (iv), 128 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 7 color plates. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt, illustrated label to front board (same as frontis); all edges trimmed; prelims foxed and with offsetting; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Latimore and Haskell, p. 43; Riall, p. 122

The Queen's Gift Book
London, etc.: Hodder and Stoughton. (1915). First edition. 4to. (ii), 160 pp. Profusely illustrated by numerous artists, including three by Rackham (for The Soot-Fairies, pp. 71-80, one in color, two in black and white). Publisher's light blue cloth, stamped in dark blue, cloth on spine ill-fitting, front and rear hinges split; all edges trimmed; prelims toned; very light scattered foxing. Very poorly-produced book. Latimore and Haskell, p. 44; Riall, p. 126

Ford, Julia Ellsworth
Snickerty Nick
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. 1919. First edition. 4to. viii, 78, (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, two color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Light blue cloth, stamped in black, spine spotted; all edges trimmed; prelims foxed and with offsetting; dust-jacket wanting; in gray paper-covered fall-down-back box; Latimore and Haskell, p. 50; Riall, p. 136

Ford, Julia Ellsworth
Imagina
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. (1923). Reprint. 4to. (xii), 178, (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and one color illustration by Rackham, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations by Lauren Ford. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in black; all edges trimmed; illustrated endpapers (by Ford), lightly foxed and unevenly toned; in publisher's tattered dust-jacket. Latimore & Haskell, p. 42; Riall, p. 123

First published in 1914 by Duffield & Company.

Carrol, Walter
River & Rainbow: Ten Miniatures For Pianoforte
London and Manchester: Forsyth Brothers Ltd., (1933 but 1934). Mixed later edition as per Riall: 310 x 244 mm, cover printed entirely in blue, one page of ads. Light foxing, scattered pencil annotations to music. Riall p. 183, not in Latimore & Haskell

Provenance

From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York