Sale 2635
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$400 – $600
London: William Heinemann/New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1920). First and limited edition, #7/600 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 625). 4to. (viii), (112) pp. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. Publisher's quarter vellum over yellow paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, lightly soiled, bottom corner rear of board bumped; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; some pages unopened; illustrated endpapers; offsetting throughout from illustrations; book-plate of Brooklyn Public Library on verso of front free endpaper, associated ex-library numbers in pencil and in ink on verso of copyright page and recto of first plate, no other library markings. Latimore & Haskell, pp 51-52; Riall, p. 141
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York