Books and Manuscripts

Two Rackham-Illustrated Titles Owned By Bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore

Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies, and a Tom Cat
London, Paris, etc.: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897. First edition, first issue (identified by “6 G--10.97” on first page of "Selected List" in rear). 8vo. viii, 190, (18) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece with tissue guard, 4 color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt, top front corner bumped; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; printed endpapers. From the library of Rackham bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore and with her original 1937 receipt laid in. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 9-10; Riall, p. 21

Interestingly, while this book was owned by Rackham bibliographer Sarah B. Latimore, the red binding is not called for in her collaborative work Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography.

This book features the first appearance of a colored illustration by Arthur Rackham.

Together with

The Book of Betty Barber
London: Duckworth and Co., (1910). First edition in book form. (xii), 130, (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 5 color illustrations, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind and in black; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; prelims foxed, with some offsetting. From the library of Rackham bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore and with her original receipt laid in. Latimore & Haskell p. 36, Riall p. 98

The illustrations here were originally done by Rackham in black and white for Little Folks magazine, in 1900. He agreed to their re-use as well as consented to have Harry Rountree color them.