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Lot 41

Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020 7:00AM ET
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Evans, C.S. (editor) The Sleeping Beauty

London: William Heinemann/Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1920). #97/600 copies signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 625) of the Edition de Luxe, printed on hand-made paper, with an additional color plate. 4to. 110 pp. Preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece; 3 double-page silhouettes with color; two full-page silhouettes with color (including additional silhouette with color not found in trade edition); 6 double and 8 single-page silhouettes in black and white; 41 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's deluxe quarter vellum over japon vellum-covered boards, stamped in gilt, corners bumped, staining to boards; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; offsetting to prelims, front and rear; offsetting from illustrations throughout text; book-plate on front paste-down. Latimore and Haskell, p. 51-52; Riall, p. 141-142.

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