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Lot 100
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$800 -
1,200
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$2,142
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Steel, Flora Annie (editor) English Fairy Tales
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1918. First and limited edition, #199/500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (x), (342), (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 16 colored plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full vellum binding, decorated in gilt, bowed; top edge gilt, others edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; Latimore and Haskell, p 48; Riall, p. 132
A near-fine copy.