Sale 2635
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$600 – $900
London: William Heinemann/Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, (1919). First and limited edition, deluxe issue printed on Japanese Vellum, #92/300 numbered copies, signed by Rackham, (from a total edition of 850). 4to. (ix), (118). Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 3 double-page silhouettes with color, 14 single-page silhouettes in black and white, one of which has color and is not present in the trade edition, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, scratch in front board, foxing to fore-edge; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated green endpapers. Latimore and Haskell, p. 49; Riall, p. 134
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York